independent.ie story – Ready to take next step forward “I think it’s about time we stopped feeling sorry for ourselves and really step up to the occasion this time”

Paddy Jackson: ‘I think it’s about time we stopped feeling sorry for ourselves and really step up to the occasion this time’
BRENDAN FANNING – PUBLISHED 30 MARCH 2014 02:30 AM

There is an inescapable irony in the short, but so far eventful, career of Paddy Jackson. It is straddled across two stories about selection.

The first was bad news gift-wrapped in green with a shamrock on the front, and inside was a player’s pass to the Scotland versus Ireland Six Nations game in Murrayfield in 2013. The second was an awkward conversation with Joe Schmidt five weeks ago, when the coach told him he would be on the plane to Paris, but with a spectator’s pass……… for the full story follow this link http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/ready-to-take-next-step-forward-30138405.html