Donal Lenihan’s hex warms us up for a mixed afternoon

Good guy, Donal Lenihan, and a fine analyst both in print and on TV, but don’t ever ask him if you’re looking well — and if you do and he tells you you’re the picture of health, then depart rapidly in several directions, writes Enda McEvoy.

All enquiries to poor Sean O’Brien.

There was the Tullow motorised vehicle prior to kick-off, going through the pre-match exercises, his rotten luck with injury apparently a thing of the past 15 months.