Henderson convinced that this can be third time lucky

The past? Maybe it really is a different country, a relic of only minor interest.

WE GO AGAIN: Iain Henderson. Pic: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Never won a quarter-final. That’s a short sentence with an extraordinarily long tail. 

It has wrapped itself around the psyche of Irish rugby for decades now, the grip tightening every four years after another failed expedition to what each squad hoped at the time would be the Promised Land of a semi-final and maybe even beyond.