Spectre of Will Skelton looms over Irish ambitions again

The Wallabies' big man has frustrated Irish sides before. 

Will Skelton training with the Wallabies at UCD this week. Picture: INPHO/Ben Brady

Will Skelton is nothing to be feared as he sits and chats with a voice that struggles to rise above the clinking and clanking of some nearby crockery and cutlery in the swanky Dublin hotel that Australia are calling home this week.

It may be the moustache, or the baggy tracksuit, or a combination of both, but he looks a tad older than his 30 years as he takes questions and bats away the fascination of an Irish media that has come to see him as some sort of bogeyman.