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Vincent Whelan

Ireland AM presenter Tommy Bowe shares circus-like upside down workout

He may have swapped keeping his boots white on the wing for putting his feet up on the Ireland AM couch but Tommy Bowe is clearly still in pretty peak condition.

Now 38, the Irish rugby legend has become a feature of Irish morning television since taking over as co-host of Ireland AM along with Muireann O'Connell.

The role demands extremely challenging hours, especially when combining it with raising two young kids with his wife Emma.

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So you'd easily understand if he knocked a few other onerous pursuits like a tough gym routine on the head.

But instead it's clear the former Ulster back is still happy to nearly end up on his head judging from a short workout clip he shared with followers.

Initially, he hoists himself directly up in the air using a pair of gym rings before incredibly maintaining control as he slowly does a full 360.

It's a creative way of maintaining your fitness (@tommybowe)

It's a move that would require a tonne of core strength but playing professional rugby at the highest level for 15 years would ensure you possess that alright.

As for his new career as a television presenter, only this week Bowe earned widespread praise for not going easy on Tánaiste Leo Varadkar over the housing crisis.

In a chat reacting to the budget and the minimal aid that was provided to renters in the form of a €500 credit, Bowe honed in on the shocking figures in relation to the number of children falling into homelessness.

He said: "We imagine there's going to be another rent increase. We're seeing pictures of students camping out beside the road, beside universities in Dublin and in Galway.

"It actually makes me think of Philly McMahon the Dublin footballer we had on yesterday.

"His brother died homeless. He said there's ten thousand people who are homeless or in emergency accommodation at the minute.

"Three thousand seven hundred of them are children, it's frightening. When we think of the windfall taxes that are coming into this country.

"I think of my own kids, the pressures we have, and we have a roof over our head.

"With your government, there are 3,700 children without a home and there is more people going to fall into this because they can't afford rent."

Varadkar replied: "Well we don't know that that's going to be the case.

"I hope we see homelessness falling again over the course of the year, it was falling for quite some time. It's started going up again."

To which an exasperated Bowe cut across with "You hope?"

He then added: "When it comes to children, and to think that they don't have a fixed roof over their head. Where does that (leave us) in a country like this?"

Varadkar responded: “I think everyone understands that homelessness is a lot more complicated than just building houses or money. There's lots of factors at play."

“The solution is more supply. In the last 12 months, 25,000 houses were built in Ireland, that's more than in any year in ten years. But we're catching up on a period when very few homes were built.”

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