Ireland will find it impossible to win unless the front five deliver

It’s funny the things you remember.

Ireland will find it impossible to win unless the front five deliver

For me it was the reaction of the Irish diaspora marooned in London at yet another time of high unemployment and economic woe in this country.

Ginger McLaughlin’s famous try, with Sasanach’s flailing in his path, will always be the signature moment of Ireland’s great win over England at Twickenham in 1982.

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