WATCH: Daddy cool Robbie delivers riposte to Roy Keane’s breastfeeding gag

The wit wasn’t exactly Wildean but, of course, the topic du jour had to be got out of the way first.

And so, when asked for his response to Roy Keane’s breastfeeding gag – which, as it happens, was directed more at a journalist’s question than the player who’d just become a dad again – his namesake Robbie yesterday rocked and shocked the press room with: “He’s used to it because he’s got bigger tits than me.”

If the remark perhaps also conveyed a hint that Robbie Keane hadn’t entirely seen the funny side of it all, that may be because the new father had actually made quite a sacrifice to join up with this team mates in Dublin.