For Members, this issue is more about participation than about the position of Connacht in the AIB league or how well it is doing in European competition. These are important issues, but what we want to do is cultivate and develop that sense of place. There is no argument that people with a sense of place and of commitment to a place are least likely to commit damage to that place or its people. That is the reality and representing one's club, town, village, county, province or country is what gives a sense of place and of being nationalist in the best sense – not in the negative way in which that word has come to be used in recent times.