SIMON MASON
FORMER IRELAND, ULSTER, ORRELL, RICHMOND, TREVISO & STADE FRANCAIS FLY-HALF
MY LIFEIN RUGBY

Getting the party started: Simon Mason lifts the Heineken Cup after Ulster’s win over Colomiers in 1999
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WHEN you celebrate in Ireland, you don’t celebrate for a night, you celebrate for a week! So you can imagine what Belfast was like after Ulster won the Heineken Cup in 1999.
We had a bus tour around the city the day after we’d beaten Colomiers, picking up where we left off from the night before by passing around a bottle of Bushmills (whisk...