‘A big threat, the heart of their attack’: Caelan Doris on France captain Antoine Dupont
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This season especially, Caelan Doris has at times seemed so laid back he could sleep on a clothes line. At his eve-of-match press conference after Ireland’s captain’s run in the Stade de France on Wednesday, he reclined so much under the glare of the lights and cameras in the media conference room he was almost prostrate. He gave every question a considered and coherent answer – and if he exudes the same inner calm and confidence throughout Thursday night’s Six Nations opener against France at the Stade de France (kick-off 9.10pm local time/8.10pm Irish) then this Ireland team might defy the odds and expectations. They wouldn’t be the first Irish team to step into a Parisian...