Heckling Henson’s muppet show

THEY say all the world’s a stage and we all have a role to play — the role of the journeyman club player was quite an unusual one.

The All-Ireland League theatre may now be shorn of its headline acts, with the big names abandoning amateur dramatics for the Hollywood that is pro rugby, but in the AIL of yore, we journeymen trod the boards beside the greats, content with bit-parts and minor billings while they gathered garlands and glory.

As with Fortinbras and Hamlet, it was a case of same play, different stratosphere.