'Was he a naughty boy? He definitely wasn't' — Andy Farrell dismisses Mack Hansen discipline rumours

The Ireland wing agreed: 'We had a five-minute tiff'

DOUBLE ACT: Mack Hansen and Peter O’Mahony address the media. Picture: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Andy Farrell has given short shrift to the notion Mack Hansen had been left out of Ireland’s original matchday squad for the opening pool game against Romania last weekend due to disciplinary reasons.

The head coach had initially omitted the first-choice wing from an otherwise full-strength backline for the Pool B opener in Bordeaux last Saturday, starting Keith Earls instead. Yet when replacement Robbie Henshaw was withdrawn as a precautionary measure, Hansen was promoted to the bench to provide outside back cover and the Connacht man played the final 21 minutes of the 82-8 rout.