Do a Wikipedia search for ‘Joe Schmidt’ and you won’t be hit with a bio and pic of Ireland’s current rugby union coach, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Liam Neeson, about to be seen alongside Harrison Ford in The Widowmaker and in Martin Scorsese's all-star Gangs of New York, is down to play Father Merrin in Exorcist 4:1, the prequel to the original.