The Box seat: The Longest Day gets re-run in a marathon day of RTÉ rugby coverage

The longest day and RTÉ make a good start, getting the troops off the beaches and into commentary boxes all over Europe.

Italy make a bad finish, collapsing like a top-heavy tiramisu as Wales run in eight tries. For a few minutes we’re left feeling like Fianna Fáil on general election day 2011. The first count hasn’t yet been announced and already the tide has gone out.

Reviving a running gag of many years that hangs on the Italian army’s famed lack of aggression in World War Two a friend texts asking, “What level of resistance did Wales meet today?”