Pushing and pulling

It remains the most famous Irish try of them all. Everyone who was at Twickenham in 1982 swears the Irish pack pushed Gerry McLoughlin over the line. ‘Ginger’ sees it differently! Diarmuid O'Flynn reports.

DENIS HICKIE scores them with scorching pace, Brian O’Driscoll scores them with dazzling pizzazz, the top two in Irish international rugby history locked in their own ding-dong try-scoring battle, a new target set, it seems, in almost every game.

With Hickie out injured O’Driscoll has an opportunity on Saturday in the Triple Crown game against the Scots to extend the new record he set last week against the Italians.