Long offers glimpse into life after Keane

LIFE without Robbie. It could be the tagline for another Hollywood rom-com or the title of the latest entrant to the chick-lit genre.

Last night it was the heading for one of a handful of interesting sub-plots on a night when Ireland and Norway went through the motions.

Shay Given has copped a fair share of flack for hogging game time between the posts down through the years but Keane has been just as difficult to budge as far as the country’s next wave of forwards are concerned.