But — the word that must be banned in Irish dressing room

The French for goal is ‘but’. I’m not a fan of the English equivalent of the spelling.

When I hear ‘but’, an excuse can’t be far behind, an imploring, an explanation when everyone else has moved on. It’s done and dusted.

Jamie Heaslip hit the right note this week in dousing the raging post-mortems into last Saturday’s loss to New Zealand. It’s done. Can we move on now? We’ve got Australia on Saturday.