Metropolis: Life after the breakdown

Ireland flanker Jamie Heaslip has been quietly making plans for what promises to be a busy post-rugby life, writes Barry J Whyte.

An indestructible object . . . and his new four-wheel drive. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall

Ireland's games against Wales have been bruising encounters in recent years. The one eight days ago was no different, with many damaged players leaving the field that Saturday. It was a ferocious match which surely left the 40-odd bodies that contested it in a state of some delicacy for days after.

Except, perhaps, for Jamie Heaslip, who on the first Monday after the game is bounding around at a sponsor's event at Carton ...