VIDEO: English papers focus on age of Ireland team and anxieties over Robbie Henshaw

As expected, the English media were concentrating on tonight's game between England and Wales.

VIDEO: English papers focus on age of Ireland team and anxieties over Robbie Henshaw

On a day when England play Wales in a crucial World Cup Pool game, there was very little mention of Ireland in the English papers today.

As Peter O'Dwyer of the Irish Examiner explains in the video below, what mention there was of Joe Schmidt's men was restricted to the age of the team playing Romania tomorrow.

Robbie Henshaw's continuing absence from the competition also caught the eye of one of the papers.

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