Far away from the madding crowds of the Six Nations last weekend, Tom Clifford Park, the famed home of Young Munster, hosted my own club Cork Constitution in the latest of a series of hotly contested Ulster Bank League Munster derbies.

Billy Holland’s recent elevation to the captaincy of the Munster rugby team ticks another box for the famous Cork rugby family.

The chief of the Khmer Rouge’s main torture centre, being tried by a UN-backed tribunal on genocide charges, today asked the Cambodian people to give him “the harshest punishment”.