For Jack Conan and Ireland, these days are too precious to be neatly packaged away

Ireland’s James Ryan soars to win ball from a lineout against New Zealand at Aviva Stadium on Saturday. Picture: Inpho/Bryan Keane

Where do you start with a game like Saturday’s? What sort of canvas do you even reach for to capture the moments, the febrile atmosphere and the collective release that this epic theatre provided?

Where better to begin than with the prologue where the All Blacks assembled into their arrow formation and laid the gauntlet down in the form of a haka that was ultimately drowned out by a spontaneous rendition of the Fields?