Talk to Len Dineen, they said. There’ll be stories, they said. Well, the Limerickman, who recently retired after 40 years as a rugby commentator, settled in ...

Sean Diffley will forever be known to his friends as “Diffo” but to a wider world he was known as a fantastic sports journalist in a career spanning more than 60 years.

For Shannon, his job was to make life as uncomfortable as possible for me in the lineout by attacking my back, while Ginger McLoughlin was invariably placed in front of me to form a two-pronged assault.

SO, yes, we honour the players, the teams, but we must come back to this grand old stadium. She went in style, blowing up a storm of the kind that had befuddled the best kickers rugby has ever known, all down the decades.