Shamrocks vs Stiff Upper Lips: How a Rugby Score Became the World’s Favorite Proxy War
Dublin, Thursday — While the rest of the planet frets about AI apocalypses, interest-rate tantrums, and whatever new crypto-cult Elon is midwifing this week, two rainy islands off Europe’s shoulder have decided the pressing geopolitical issue is a rugby score. Ireland 29, England 16. Cue fireworks on the Liffey, pints aerating like shaken sodas, and…