Brendan Fanning: Ireland’s high-tempo rugby is too much for Italians - and it will be the same story against Wales

Ireland No 8 Jack Conan is tackled by Manuel Zuliani and Paolo Garbisi of Italy

Brendan Fanning

After a brutal day on Saturday on the entertainment front, we feared another instalment of aerial boredom.

Rugby is on the verge of an emergency general meeting to sort out the ugly spectacle that is the ping -pong which ends only when one side blinks. Mercifully, we were spared that here.