McShane on road to recovery

PAUL McSHANE is back in the frame for a first competitive start for Ireland since a certain game which, try as we all might, he and the country can’t ever forget.

Apologies for reopening old wounds but it is an inescapable fact that the Wicklow boy was the closest human being on the planet to the most infamous handball incident since Maradona diddled Shilton.

Yep, we’re back in Paris again, on the night when Ireland’s World Cup dream was dashed by Thierry Henry’s ‘Hand Of Gaul’. Has Paul McShane managed to get over it yet?