RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

YOU don’t have to be a proud Ulsterman to think that David Hewitt, who died aged 87 last week, was a criminally underrated and curiously unheralded player given the heft and weight of his achievements.
I know that to be true because, over the years, I was lucky enough to talk to a number of the 1959 Lions party and to a man they said the same.
As the youngest member of that glittering tour party to Australia and New Zealand, Hewitt, aged 19, played in five of the six Tests in Australia ...