‘We’re not going to win anything with schoolkids’

Michael Cheika thought twice before allowing his Wallabies wander down Killiney Hill and into Dalkey village on Tuesday evening.

McDonaghs pub was the proposed destination. A performance by the Limerick band Hermitage Green, for whom former Munster player Barry Murphy plays guitar, was the hook that caught their interest.

It is only 12 months since another Aussie social excursion, to the Brazen Head in Dublin City centre, prompted six suspensions from then coach Ewen McKenzie.