Ireland lock Dr Bill Mulcahy will be remembered for many things not least being a rumbustious Ireland lock who also won six Lions caps while as a doctor he was, for many decades, the chief medical officer of Ireland national airline Aer Lingus.
It is however as a rugby figurehead for St Munchin’s College Limerick that perhaps his greatest legacy lies.
The Ireland national team – now and indeed for many years past – has often been labelled as a side being fed by a conveyor belt of top quality talent from the posh private schools of Ireland and in particular Leinster and Dublin. And there is a...