Irish went about it ‘exactly the right way’, Billo and co? Not so

BY half-time in Andorra la Vella we looked like the Irishmen who went up a mountain but came down a hill.

Two early goals had lifted the fog of pessimism that had gathered around the panel before kick-off. And Billo could glory, for one night at least, in a sweet slice of vindication.

Despite the fact that he’s been hanging around these lads for half his adult life and really ought to know better by now, O’Herlihy couldn’t quite believe the scale of the negativity beforehand.