Courtney aiming to give Irish a shiner

By GARY FITZGERALD

Black eye: Lawes

COURTNEY Lawes shrugged off a nasty training ground eye injury and insisted it will not stop him going blow for blow with the Irish at Twickenham today.
The Northampton lock prepared for another ultraphysical forward battle with the men in green looking like he had been on the receiving end of one of Deontay Wilder’s mighty left hooks! But Lawes, whose right eye needed stitches after being left badly bruised and swollen and almost closed, insists his focus has not been blurred by the collision with a team-mate in the build up to the Six Nations c...

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