French tradition, Irish bottle and the new green wave

The thing with Ireland is they have to get angry, writes Ronan O’Gara

A hotel room in Barcelona seems an odd place to begin, when Irish people are high-fiving their way across France, coming down from the highveld in South Africa, and descending on Manchester, where our U20 rugby boys have advanced to a World Cup final

Some poor souls like this one exist in a bubble, a bubble that explodes at the Camp Nou this evening in front of 98,000 fans. I exist not alone in this bubble. All of French rugby is here, extraordinary though that might seem in the midst of the European football championships.