Twickenham Grand Slam - An inspiring achievement

Coming so quickly on the heels of the conquest of Cheltenham by Irish raiders, Saturday’s magnificent Grand Slam at Twickenham created the kind of feel-good atmosphere that the Government’s Special Communications Unit can only dream about.

Sport, once again, showed that it can cheer the heart and generate the kind of justified pride that sustains most of what is good about society and, in turn, each of us. It was, for a small, often peripheral country, inspirational.