Reader's Blog: Ireland loses more than a rugby game to Australia

Watching Ireland lose the rugby match against Australia wasn’t the only sad thing to cross my mind last weekend.

The bigger issue surely was watching the ocean of green and the many thousands of our fantastic young Irish men and women thronging the stadium in Brisbane. The same phenomenon will be seen again today and next Saturday where again many more thousands of our young emigrants, driven out by a failed state, will gather to support the team.