‘The answers are within the team’

Donnacha Ryan is free of grudges and baggage and ready to tackle Wales again

A lot has happened to Donnacha Ryan in the 12 months since he was speared neck first into the ground by Bradley Davies.

The Wales lock should have been sent off rather than sin-binned by referee Wayne Barnes in that 2012 RBS 6 Nations opener at the Aviva Stadium, who knows what might have happened then. So influential are such decisions on the outcome of a championship decided over six short weeks that Ireland, rather than Wales, may have gone to complete a Grand Slam but Ryan, 29, bears no ill will towards Davies, he has more important issues to concern him.