Furlong on beef, chasing form, and Ireland’s lack of a Jean Byrne

Tadhg Furlong likes a bowl of ramen or a parcel of gyoza as much as the next man, but there comes a time when this son of Wexford farming stock hankers for a bit of beef, and he sated that appetite in some style in Fukuoka over the weekend.

Like most of the Ireland squad, he could be spotted wandering around the streets of central Fukuoka, revelling in the two days on shore leave, finding coffee shops and, in his case, a steakhouse that reminded him of The Butcher’s Grill back in Ranelagh.