Journalists' Turner's Cross complaints all over nothing

Despite the fears of some journalists, the match went off with the minimum of problems with facilities, writes Liam Mackey.

The wheels on the bus go ‘round and ‘round and the journos on the bus go moan, moan, moan…

So there we were, a little group of us huddled together outside the Aviva before the Dutch friendly last Friday, doing what any self-respecting hic of hacks gathered anywhere has gotta do: moaning heroically about the bad craziness that was bound to ensue at Turner’s Cross the following Tuesday, what with only a few of the huge media contingent expected at the Belarus game set to have access to wi-fi, a power-point and a desk, and with the early, ominous word from the FAI indicating that, after the final whistle, Martin O’Neill’s Euros squad announcement would probably only become available to us at a late, late, deadline-busting hour.