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Peter Jackson: It was a fitting end to James Lowe’s Ireland odyssey

Peter Jackson reflects on James Lowe’s emotional Leinster farewell, the contract dispute that ended his Ireland career and the challenge of replacing one of the nation’s great wings.

At the end, when the final curtain came down on James Lowe’s Irish adventure, a partial rainbow peeked through the black clouds over Dublin.
For a fleeting moment or two, it was almost as if the rugby gods felt they needed to show their appreciation.

In the finest showbiz tradition, Lowe left the crowd clamouring for more, signing off on the victor’s podium amid Leinster’s crowning as double champions of the URC, a punishing tournament stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Indian Ocean.
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