Brief O'Shea story, for anyone interested.
Quite often when home in Ireland he'd visited a children's hospital, without any need for press or attention, usually bringing along other players. Anyway, the hospital was doing a headline event with a particular Irish sportsperson, someone who (rightly) gets lauded for the amount of charity work they do. This sportsperson dropped out of the event at short notice, without any real reason given, sending the organisers into a massive panic. O'Shea had given them his personal mobile number when he was over previously so they chanced their arm and rang him, hoping he'd convince someone in the Irish squad or set up. He took the call himself, agreed without asking any details beyond where and when and, two days later, turned up an hour early with two massive bags of gear and toys for the kids, which he'd bought and transported across himself. The event was scheduled to run for 90 mins, he stayed almost 6 hours, had chicken nuggets and chips with the kids long after he was supposed to be gone, played more games of FIFA and posed for more photos than is humanly possible and generally made them feel incredibly special.
So yeah, it's fair to say I think, in the most important sense, he's top class.