WORLD Rugby should abandon their ‘player welfare’ platitudes and make the game safer by merely enforcing its own laws. A fortnight ago in The Rugby Paper, Brendan Gallagher displayed his credentials as an outstanding rugby writer highlighting why the breakdown ‘remains a disgrace’. With prophetic clarity, he pinpointed a potential Achilles’ heel in Irish rugby’s hugely impressive recent domination of the rugby world stating: “Leinster, and to a slightly lesser extent Ireland, have been getting away with murder… flying in off...