Love/Hate, twerking and a long, hot summer — Dave Kenny takes a tongue-in-cheek look back at the year that was.

IRELAND or Australia.

DESPITE my absence of just over two months from the journalistic front-line, so much has happened since the conclusion of the Lions test series in July that has brought nothing but shame, ridicule and much negative comment to a sport loved by many all over the world.

IT was a match against Greystones six or seven years ago.