We are entitled to dream a little... the World Cup can’t come soon enough

Games as eagerly anticipated as Saturday’s clash of Ireland and New Zealand rarely deliver on the expectation, but this was special, another one of those I was there days, writes Donal Lenihan.

Sport really has the capacity to lift a nation and this Irish team, operating in unison with a totally committed and captivated green army, combined to consign the might of the All Blacks to the scrap heap.