The Breakdown | Once at war with the world and himself, Sexton in his own words is revealing

If you thought you knew the iconic former Ireland fly-half, it’s time to look deeper – this is no leafy lane memoirPerhaps the most tell-tale aspect of Johnny Sexton’s new autobiography is that it took seven years to stitch together. Seven years? Not since James Joyce took a similar timeframe to write Ulysses has there been such a slow-cooked Irish literary stew. And as Peter O’Reilly, Sexton’s excellent (and potentially long-suffering) ghostwriter, reveals in the f