Ireland comforted by the chaos of last trip to Murrayfield

“I just remember coming in at half-time, Dan had gone down, Hendy had gone down, my shoulder was at me a bit, but there was no panic,” Rónan Kelleher recalled ahead of this weekend’s trip to Edinburgh.

Ireland’s Johnny Sexton and Josh van der Flier celebrate winning at Murrayfield in 2023. Pic: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan.

Laughter isn’t the most frequent of sounds to be heard at half-time in a Test match dressing-room.

It was all some of Ireland’s players and staff could do two years ago as they came to terms with a freakish run of injuries in Murrayfield.