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"textContent": "In a different era, Stuart McCloskey would be packing down in the engine room against Italy. His fellow Ulsterman Willie John McBride, the revered second row hard man of the 1960s and 1970s who even earned the respect of All Black Colin ‘Pine Tree’ Meads, was 6ft2in and around 15 stone – McCloskey is 6ft4in […]",
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