The greening of Grenoble

What is it with Irish rugby players and coaches heading to the mountains in France? In the Pyrenees, Pau has become an Irish enclave, while over in the Alps, Grenoble has become green.

Of course, if we are all mountain people, so to speak, then Jonathan Sexton and Ronan O’Gara would have forsaken Racing in Paris and gone to Clermont Auvergne up in the Massif Central.

But the Irish have always followed each other abroad. All it ever took was one fella from Bohola to settle in Buffalo and suddenly half of Mayo, it would seem, would land there.