Draw against Sweden the one that got away

What is it about Ireland, the Stade de France and cruel twists of fate?

For the Hand of Gaul in 2009, read the Head of Clark in 2016.

Ciaran Clark’s 90 minutes pretty much personified the team’s a hugely positive and generally uplifting display undone by a spasm of self-destruction, the centre-half’s luckless own goal permitting Sweden to achieve a parity on the scoreboard which they scarcely ever enjoyed on the pitch.