Irish rugby legend Brian O'Driscoll has gone viral on Twitter after he kindly came to the assistance of an elderly woman on a flight from the UK to Dublin earlier this week.
A woman, whose partner had recently passed away from cancer, was travelling back to Ireland when O'Driscoll noticed her struggling with her bags and came over to help her out.
The woman's daughter Claire Wilson took to social media to praise 'kind and helpful' Clontarf native O'Driscoll for the good deed.
She wrote on Twitter: "Yesterday (Thursday) my mother travelled back to Ireland from the UK, where she'd visited friends and family for the first time since she lost the love of her life to cancer.
"His first anniversary is this month. She was tired and emotionally fragile at the airport. Memories of holidays they took came back to her- holidays together that won't happen again.
"She was the struggling with her bags on the steps out to the tarmac, and missing the person she called 'her big strong man' to help her. She was getting tearful, and it was then that someone she described as 'a very handsome man' offered to carry her bag, and even took it on to the plane for her. "
"She said he was kind and helpful, which was just what she needed at that point. So a huge thank you from me to @BrianODriscoll - not only did you help out my lovely mam when she was feeling helpless and lost, but as she's been a huge fan of yours for as long as I remember, to meet you and find you to be kind and generous gave her a real lift. Thank you."
Social media users flocked to say how impressed they were by O'Driscoll's kind act.
One said: "Not going to lie, this story made me cry a little! Good on him."
Another said: "How lovely to know there's still kindness in the world, an added bonus about the who."
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