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Jack Anderson: Buy and wear a proper hurling helmet. You can thank me later

Try convincing an insurance company that not being able to see the ball properly was your excuse for wearing defective equipment and see how far it gets you
Jack Anderson: Buy and wear a proper hurling helmet. You can thank me later

ESSENTIAL GEAR: The helmet set aside - but only for the Kilkenny Tipp warm up. Pic: James Crombie, Inpho

Forty years ago, the Grand Slam-winning Wallabies gave us a glimpse of the future of rugby. 

Wingers who got the ball, props who wanted the ball and a fly half (Mark Ella) who passed it. Looking back on that Australian rugby tour to Britain and Ireland, you can see how much rugby, and Ireland, has changed. 

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