LIAM MACKEY: A new front in the war of words

Not for the first time in recent Irish-Polish relations, the home consumers in the Aviva on Wednesday night were entitled to ask: where’s the beef?

That was especially the case during a thoroughly unpalatable first half-hour from the boys in green even if, happily, things did take a somewhat more nourishing turn in the second half.

However, we all had to wait until the aftermath for the real meat of the week as — again, not for the first time — Giovanni Trapattoni managed to trigger a public war of words.