Tommy Conlon: It’s time we showed a bit of gratitude to the Irish rugby team after their sensational year

Tommy Conlon: It’s time we showed a bit of gratitude to the Irish rugby team after their sensational year

Johnny Sexton holds the Six Nations trophy as Ireland celebrate their Grand Slam victory after defeating England at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: David Rogers/Getty

Johnny Sexton holds the Six Nations trophy as Ireland celebrate their Grand Slam victory after defeating England at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: David Rogers/Getty

The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, wrote the poet nearly four hundred years ago.

Nowadays, as Christmas has proven once again, we could be stuffed to the gills and still want more. The gluttonous sheep look up and are overfed. Much wants more. Much wants more and loses all, wrote another fella, three hundred years ago.

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