Ireland’s call to clean up our parks

BY NOW, the egg-chasing is well under way; interminable weeks of mismatches and dead rubbers before any half-serious participant starts all over again in the quarters.

Perhaps the IRB consulted the Hurling Development Committee on the format.

We wish Drico and the goys well of course — they seem sound, if slightly misshapen lads — but at the same time we must wonder if the national interest might be best served by another no-show.