All aboard the party bus, as Ireland banish mental scars

It was just of 5pm local time, four hours before kick-off, when an open-topped party bus stopped in traffic outside the Ireland team’s hotel in the centre of Copenhagen.

All aboard the party bus, as Ireland banish mental scars

It was just of 5pm local time, four hours before kick-off, when an open-topped party bus stopped in traffic outside the Ireland team’s hotel in the centre of Copenhagen. The music was blaring — Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas singing about her “lovely lady lumps”, in case you were wondering — and the two dozen or so women on board were in fine spirits. Maybe even sipping on a few, too.

The dining room for Mick McCarthy’s squad overlooked the main street from a few floors up and it would have been impossible for them not to have heard — or seen — the raucous scenes. Indeed, more than a few bodies in their luminous green training gear could be seen coming to the window.

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