Peter O’Mahony: So hard to break teams down

If ever there was a week to symbolise exactly how far Ireland’s national team has come, this is it. 

England in town. Grand Slam on the line for both sides. Ireland on a run of nine straight wins. And still the nitpickers pick. Not just outside camp, but within it, too. Peter O’Mahony was at it in their Kildare lodgings just yesterday.

Let’s be clear first, though. O’Mahony and his buddies couldn’t give a fig about the debate presently swirling around this Six Nations about excessive levels of physicality or the absence of pretty running patterns.