Porter: 'We’re more than just players. We’re brothers, sons, boyfriends, husbands, whatever'

Andrew Porter packs close to 20 stone. The force he can exert in a scrum, or on arrival at a ruck, doesn't bear thinking about for us common folk but there is a palpable tenderness to the way he holds a picture of his late mother Wendy for Inpho's acclaimed series of portraits that strips away the jerseys to depict Ireland's players as people.

Captured over the course of the last year, the diverse images of players and management staff with their families, their pets and in all sorts of surroundings were released in the last week and the reaction at home and further afield speaks volumes for the work done. The shot of Porter, who lost his mum to cancer when he was 12, is particularly poignant.