Crown would be the highlight for King Henry

All week now, the Ireland coaches and players have been running around their team base in Kildare with the metaphorical fire extinguishers, dousing any talk of Triple Crowns or, heaven forbid, a Grand Slam.

You know the mantra. One game at a time. Defence coach Les Kiss took it a step further on Tuesday by describing this Saturday’s meeting with England in Twickenham as 80 one-minute encounters.

Maybe it was the fact that Chris Henry wasn’t cocooned in camp yesterday and in Dublin promoting Kinetica instead, or maybe it’s just because that’s how he rolls, but the Ulster flanker was more up front about the magnitude of this one.