Kelly gets on with life on sidelines

JUST two days to go before Ireland kick their heels and turn into the final bend of their European Championship campaign and yet vast swathes of the sports pages are being dominated by events 12,000 miles away.

Giovanni Trapattoni’s players have not been immune to it.

Stephen Hunt, for one, plans on watching the World Cup quarter-final against Wales unfold from Wellington on Saturday morning, this despite the fact that the national football team will return to Dublin from Andorra via Barcelona at an ungodly hour not long before kick-off.