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I kicked in the wrong apartment door for Aled Walters ‘cos I didn’t want to let him down

It was hard not to be moved by the scenes in Japan last weekend. A country beset by problems, economic and social, historic and contemporary, achieved what very few of their citizens thought possible at the beginning of 2019. Siya Kolisi, the boy from a Port Elizabeth township, lifted the Webb Ellis Cup as the …

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How much do we really love and appreciate our Irish culture?

Can you speak any Irish, Duncan?” “Eh, I can yeah, a bit.” “Can you say some stuff?” “Eh, yeah, eh…” And so began a few moments of awkwardly tripping over the most basic Irish phrases, with plenty of French peppered into my shamefully and incoherently poor attempt to showcase my country’s language. The conversation was …

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Munster’s Boris shows he’s not too dainty for front row rough and tumble

On November 12, John Ryan made his international rugby debut. People could be forgiven for thinking he came from nowhere; If you told him in June that this was on the cards, he would have laughed. A likeable guy with a self deprecating sense of humour, people were genuinely thrilled to see him reach such …

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