According to the scoreboard Ireland lost, but after everything that has gone before it almost feels like a win.

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Are those green shoots of recovery, or are they simply maggots wriggling out of the… chest cavity… at which we are peering down, and which even through our delirium we might still dimly recognise as… our own.

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We turn to Bishop Sadlier and Chief Inspector Sneyd to try to understand what really happened last night.

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