Dan Sheehan goes from ‘despising’ Ellis Genge to loving ‘funny bloke’ Lions prop Sport By PA News Agency Dan Sheehan, pictured, has made an unlikely friend in Ellis Genge (Evan Treacy/PA) ...

And he’s a funny bloke off the pitch. Everyone loves him. You can see the passion he brings to meetings, on to the pitch and in the scum. “He’s very real and says it how it is.

British and Irish Lions’ Ellis Genge has a new friend in Dan Sheehan (Brian Lawless/PA) “It’s mad how fast you can go from despising people to hanging around with them and going for coffee!” Sheehan ...

And he’s a funny bloke off the pitch. Everyone loves him. You can see the passion he brings to meetings, on to the pitch and in the scrum. “He’s very real and says it how it is.

“Genge would be a good one. He’s obviously a passionate, animated player for England and someone who we, as Ireland, would consider as a talisman and someone, in an Irish jersey, we’d need to target. ...