Donal Lenihan: Losing by 12 a minor miracle

THE journey takes less than a minute but it’s the moment you know you’ve arrived at one of the best arenas in world rugby.

The majority of the same Irish players took that spine-tingling walk from the team coach through the a pair of entrance pillars en route to the Twickenham dressing rooms for that disastrous World Cup warm up last August. They would have been confident of a different outcome this time out.