Ireland insists it is business as usual against All Blacks

Johnny Sexton insists Ireland’s World Cup squad are all business as they prepare for Saturday’s quarter-final against the All Blacks, a stark contrast to four years ago when he believes they were overly emotional a week too early.

Fresh from having helped secure Ireland’s qualification for the knockout stages in the weekend victory over Samoa, fly-half Sexton, 33, detected a different tone as Joe Schmidt’s signed off their Pool A campaign with a clinical 47-5 victory to the emotional celebrations that met their final pool game against France in Cardiff at the 2015 World Cup.