Cool Heaslip awaits Ireland call

DYNAMIC on the park, laid back to the point of being horizontal off it. It’s a contrast in styles that has served Jamie Heaslip well as he continues his climb up the ladder of Irish rugby.

Though Paris has been the graveyard of many an Irish international career, he claims there wasn’t “a bother” on him leading up to Ireland’s fixture there. Such a statement wouldn’t ring true from many a mouth, but with Heaslip it does.

It may be a cliche, but he really is a different man when he crosses that white line and he did justice to the increasingly vociferous calls for his international elevation in recent seasons with his display in Paris.