There is one side to Ireland's rugby set-up that's softer than before...

Manager Mick Kearney: 'It's different to Joe's time when we were based at Carton House 24/7, you felt you were at work all the time. It has been a nice change-up, so the environment around has changed a little bit as well'

JOE SHOW: Former Ireland head coach - and now New Zealand assistant coach - Joe Schmidt.

Life under Andy Farrell may be more relaxed and inclusive for Ireland than it was under Joe Schmidt but these World Cup contenders would not be where they are now without their former head coach, team manager Mick Kearney argues.

Kearney knows both Schmidt and Farrell well having served under both regimes, as well as Declan Kidney in 2012-13, and is as fascinated as anyone by this Saturday night’s World Cup quarter-final at Stade de France when Ireland will face a New Zealand attack masterminded by Schmidt.