What if Michael Cusack had stuck with rugby?

Paul Rouse wonders what if Michael Cusack had stuck with his first love, rugby.

Brian O’Driscoll got it absolutely right when he assessed why the Irish rugby team will always struggle to be the very best in the world: “We are a nation of five or six million and it’s our fourth-choice sport.”

He continued: “Are we ever going to be the consistent level of New Zealand? No, we’re not. I don’t think we have the depth of players or the player numbers to be able to facilitate that level of competition, to drive the standards that high.