When Peter McGrath’s wife of 34 years, Cheryl, read the citation for his Australia Day honour, her first response was, “No wonder you were never home.”
He was on the road so much during his chairmanship of various rugby union boards that on one occasion Cheryl rang Peter asking him to get some milk on the way home in Canberra. “I’m in Dublin for a meeting,” was Peter’s reply.
Canberra-born, Peter was the chair of Rugby Australia from 2007 to 2012.