Anthony Cunningham is a casualty of sport’s short memory

Anthony Cunningham didn’t deserve his term to end the way it did, writes Anthony Daly

Watching the drama unfold in the new stadium on Lansdowne Road on Monday night made me smile with joy — because I have always followed the football team — and with irony.

Just a few months back, when the Scots had plundered their fourth point of the campaign off us in the same field, many pundits, experts and circus fans wrote off Ireland’s chances.