Young Northlander finds fresh game in Ireland

Proud mother Mema Rawiri believes things come in seven-year cycles.
Her 19-year-old son Hughie now plays rugby for an Irish club after representing both the Kaipara and Northland at the game.
It is seven years since Mrs Rawiri, Victim Support co-ordinator, lost two sons in a tragic car accident.
Both young men were good rugby players with one, 23-year-old Edward, about to travel to Canada to play club rugby.
His younger brother Lawrence, 16, killed in the same accident, was also showing promise at the game.
"Now seven years later, Hughie is doing really well and seems to be following in the family tradition with his rugby and what he's doing over there is a good thing," she said.
Mrs Rawiri said her son was encouraged to go and play rugby in Ireland by former Dargaville player and coach Mike Mullins.
Mr Mullins, who now works for the Irish Rugby Board as an Under 20s coach, had gone there to catch up with his father's family.
He had been instrumental in helping Hughie get a foot-hold in the rugby scene in Ireland and now Hughie plays for Old Crescent Rugby Football Club.
"He's got plenty of varying culture around him because he's flatting with an Australian, a Tongan and a Canadian," she laughed.
Hughie had also managed to find a day job at a construction site while playing rugby in his down time.
"Apparently rugby players don't start playing over there until they are about 11 or 12 whereas our children start sometimes as young as pre-school age - so they enjoy the Kiwi players going over there," she said.
Mrs Rawiri said she had many treasured memories of all her children and when she and her husband Bom lost two sons, they were praised for how involved they had been with their children.
"Bom supported the boys and our only daughter Susan, now 25, who played netball," she said.
Mrs Rawiri said she had a natural motherly apprehension about her youngest child going across to the other side of the world.
"It was hard to let him out of my back pocket but you have to let them grow up sometime. But the strong bond will never be broken," she said.
Mrs Rawiri said the Irish had given Hughie plenty of advice on how to get to know the culture and the people there.
She said the family were able to now celebrate her son's good fortune in having the opportunity to travel with rugby.