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Rory Best has had a roller coaster month of emotions. Simon Lewis caught up with him in Perth

As Rory Best drove to the Ulster training ground nine days ago, his mind was still turning over the way a season of promise had turned in every way to disappointment.

A poor Six Nations for Ireland, a Heineken Cup quarter-final exit to Saracens and the latest woe, a RaboDirect Pro12 final defeat by Leinster, it was a pretty miserable collection of events to mull as he tried to get himself organised for the Ireland tour to North America.