Leo Cullen: France game a chance for Ireland to make a statement

Leo Cullen always strikes you as a man who’d forget to buy a lottery ticket on the week his numbers came up, then reply that he’d at least saved two euro in the process.

As head coach at a professional rugby team, that’s perhaps what it takes, a constant focus on the positive, an unending ability to bounce back from negativity. So, his take on Joe Schmidt’s Ireland, after three rounds of a capricious Six Nations, are naturally of interest.