RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

A weekly look at the game’s other talking points

Life was a magical mystery tour for Eddie Butler, usually undertaken on foot because he waged war on taxis and those of us preferring to get from A to B in comfort or with alacrity.
Eddie loved to roam the streets – it kept the arthritis at bay – and talk to the locals when he nipped into bars and cafes where he would linger reading the local papers. A formidable linguist, he would discuss everything under the sun with all and sundry including occasionally rugby and it is somehow fitting, if immensely sad,...