Will Ireland follow Greece into the abyss? Never mind the markets, watch the rugby

Martin Vander Weyer’s Any other business

In the spirit of Richard Ingrams, who as our television critic many years ago reviewed a programme he had not seen but had heard through a hotel-room wall, I felt moved to write about Ireland on the strength of perusing a discarded copy of the Irish Times at a petrol station en route to Manchester for a day at the Tory conference.