Possible scrum for rugby star’s house

IRELAND has had a great rugby year, but Bertie O’Hanlon remembers a better one: 1948.

And he knows just how good it was because he was there, togged out, and he has the t-shirt and the ball to prove it.

The fit 80-year-old played on the Irish rugby team that pipped the Welsh team back in 1948, winning both the Triple Crown and the Grand Slam a feat never before or since matched by any Irish team.