Munster Rugby drop ball on Limerick ‘base’

Oh dear. As if the defeats and general gloom surrounding Munster Rugby in recent weeks wasn’t bad enough, I see the dreaded call for ‘root and branch’ reform and review has now been issued, to general nodding of heads.

This call is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Literally.

Tennessee Williams habitually subtracted from his real age the seven years he spent working in a shoe factory, on the grounds that those years didn’t count as part of his real life. While your columnist doesn’t see his time in the cockpit of democracy — Dáil Eireann — in the same light, some of the experiences of those years would be better off … not experienced.