O'Mahony: ‘You can’t be feeling sorry for yourself’

If it’s a certain tone you want setting off the back of a thumping opening defeat and in the days ahead of a must-win second act, then Peter O’Mahony really is your man.

Nobody does a steely glare like the Munster flanker and few can match the dramatic impact of the four-, five- and six-second pregnant pauses, as he mulls over each question before delivering a reply coated in gravitas and unburdened by bullshit.