The 22-year-old athlete, who is currently a member of Ireland’s Leinster team, spoke about his sexuality on 26 June as part of a Leinster Rugby panel discussion, called Building Allies with Pride, as well as BBC’s LGBT Sport Podcast.
Dunne, who’s been out to his friends and family for the past four or five years, said it was finally time for him to go public with his bisexuality because “there are some kids across the country who could do with a role model.” “I kind of realized when I was 15 or 16, but you are in a school full of of teenage boys,” said the star. “A lot of them would say things that they wouldn’t even be thinking about, but they are just doing it out of ignorance.