Senators in a ruck over high tackle on rugby

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Leo Varadkar

The good news is that not only is the Dáil back from its summer recess, but the Seanad is back too, and high on its agenda last week was condemnation of some crusty-mouthed Shinner from the northsoide who had the temerity to suggest that Irish rugby was run by a load of west Brits.

The very notion! Quite correctly, the IRFU under-secretary for colonial affairs, Sir Humphrey Smythington-Smythe CBE, did not dignify his ...