CHRIS HEWETTGUEST COLUMNIST

It does no violence to the truth to state that Italy are half as good a rugby team as Ireland, so there is something beautifully symmetrical about the way Mike Catt is impacting affairs in Dublin twice as quickly as he did in Rome.During what amounted to a premature burial in the blue-shrouded graveyard of the Six Nations between early 2016, when he was recruited by the Azzurri, and late 2019, when their World Cup campaign was cut short by the rib-achingly hilarious failure of the organisers to plan for the arrival of a typhoon in a typhoon-threatened c...