People were falling in love with Leitrim hurler Zak Moradi after he told his incredible story on the Tommy Tiernan Show tonight.
Moradi grew up in Iraq in a Kurdish family but when he was 11 years old his family fled Saddam Hussein's horror regime to move to Ireland.
Finding himself in Carrick-on-Shannon in 2002 was a big culture shock to Moradi but he quickly fell in love with hurling.
And he has gone to become a regular member of the Leitrim hurling team. And even when he and his mother moved to Tallaght in Dublin, Moradi still made the long journey back to the north-west for training and matches.
Moradi was on the Leitrim team that won the Lory Meaghar cup - 17 years after arriving here as a refugee.
It was a story that hit a chord with many people who praised Moradi on social media:
