Inside Irish rugby’s rise — and its struggle to stay on top
When Brendan Fanning’s name pops up on your phone, you know you’re in for an interesting conversation. So when he mentioned he was researching a follow-up to his excellent From There to Here, which told the story of the chaos of Irish rugby’s early professional years, complete with all the political infighting and occasional moments of accidental competence – it felt like something worth paying attention to. He wanted to write about what happened next. After Irish rugby finally accepted that this professional sport was something we could actually be quite good at. Winning Six Nations titles. European Cups. Beating…
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