Seven years ago, Damian Duff sat down for a chat with thi snewspaper and spoke about how you could feel Lansdowne Road’s creaky old bones shaking from the toilets in the dressing-room as the DART thundered through the West Stand.

PITY the Euro 2004 managers whose loyalty to some tired old warriors was misplaced. How it cost them.

THE MOST disturbing aspect of the Keane-McCarthy debacle has been the success of British tabloids in setting and ruthlessly pursuing their negative agenda.