The Irish Examiner is a newspaper I’m particularly proud to work with – their daily sports supplement is routinely one of the very best around, so to be involved, even in a small way, is something special.
You won’t be surprised, therefore, that it took me about 0.000025 seconds to agree to do a piece on French rugby for their pre-tournament World Cup pull-out, even though I was quite busy at the time.
This – along with a print-only downpage piece on the future of French fly-halves – was the result…
AND I got an honourable mention in the pre-tournament RWC newsletter!
French rugby has, historically, done mystifying very well — but things have moved to a whole new level in recent months…
James Harrington: Freelance sports journalist 