Bordeaux has been accommodating Irish fans for several hundred years, and if you want the evidence, check out the Irish names on wine bottles at its latest visitor attraction, Bordeaux Grand Vins experience: Lynch, Kirwan, Barton, right down to Lochlann Quinn of Château de Fieuzal.

Greetings from beautiful Bordeaux, where the buzz around the city was far more concerned with the fortunes of “les garçons en bleu” than the Boys in Green, with the hosts’ second group game taking place last night.