Rory Best: 'I thought you played hard and partied hard. I had to change'

Ireland’s most capped forward talks about kicking in a neighbour’s door, the abuse he suffered for being a Protestant captain and the insecurities that drove him on“It was another one of those nights and I went in to the local chicken shop, as you do,” Rory Best says as he remembers a drunken time long before he won the first of 124 Test caps. Despite being a Protestant from Ulster, and a man once derided for his background and body-shape, Best captained Ireland 38 times, with his final game being in last year’s World Cup quarter-final loss to New Zealand. He is the most-capped forward in Iris…