O’Mahony: Twickenham display inexcusable

Don’t try and tell Peter O’Mahony that Ireland’s Twickenham trouncing was, in some weird way, a ‘good’ thing.

Amid all the hand-wringing and wailing over the team’s prospects at the fast-approaching World Cup, there was the barely audible voice in the back of a nation’s head that a hiding at this point in time could prove to be, well, a blessing in disguise.