Peter Jackson: Is there someone up there who doesn't like us?

INJURY WOE: Ireland’s Garry Ringrose receives treatment before going off injured Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/James Crombie

The Grand Slam gods have played some dirty tricks in their time but never quite as many as they rained down on Ireland at Murrayfield. It was as if they had gone into conclave and conspired to set the champions-elect a brutally destructive test.

As the accidents began piling up, those on the receiving end would have been less than human had the same rhetorical question not flitted across their minds: ‘Is there Somebody Up There who doesn’t like us?’