Chance of silverware can finally bring the Best out of Ulster

As the PRO12 builds to a climax, Alasdair Reid meets the man who puts the King in Kingspan

In any other era Rory Best would probably have been hailed as Ireland’s
greatest player of the age.

In the time of Brian O’Driscoll, Paul O’Connell,
Ronan O’Gara and Jamie Heaslip, however, the hooker has more often been seen
as one of the foot soldiers — albeit one who has savoured the bounties of
their Six Nations conquests and campaigns.



Yet as befits a man whose name could be read as a respectful nod to Northern
Ireland’s two most celebrated sporting sons, Best occupies a higher pedestal …