The truth will set you free. Kind of...

YOU couldn’t call it a storm in a teacup. It was more of a squall in a cappuccino saucer. But Ronan O’Gara’s candour this week was notable no matter how you frame your meteorological metaphors.

For those of you blissfully unaware of what happened, the Munster and Ireland out-half simply stated what most right-thinking people assume to be obvious to all of us: that the Sky Sports military-industrial complex of hype tends to overstate things somewhat when it comes to the true worth of the sporting contests it covers.

O’Gara cited the Zurich Premiership as Exhibit A.