“I don’t think they’ll boo him again in Lansdowne Road,” George Hamilton declared on RTE over the shots of Cristiano Ronaldo hugging Addison Whelan who had run on to the pitch at the end of Ireland’s game against Portugal before handing her his jersey. The truth is that as far as Cristiano Ronaldo and visits to Ireland go, there is unlikely to be a chance to boo him again. Ronaldo is 36 and his last game in Dublin was in 2009 when he made his Real Madrid debut in a game against Shamrock Rovers in Tallaght. This may well have…

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