Brian O'Driscoll is in no doubt that arrogance is creeping into the Irish rugby fanbase and that many supporters need "to have a good hard look" at themselves.
Irish rugby teams, over the last two decades, have enjoyed unprecedented success in club competitions and on the international arena.
Ulster, Munster and Leinster won seven Champions Cup titles, while Ireland claimed three of their four Grand Slams in the last 16 years.
In addition, the men’s senior side won three more Six Nations titles, an away series in New Zealand, and claim regular Test victories over the All Blacks, South Africa and Australia, although the World Cup remains a significant stumbling block.
That, however, hasn’t stopped certain elements of the base getting carried away, according to the former Ireland and Leinster centre.
"For sure, not like maybe," replied O’Driscoll when asked about Irish arrogance.
"We're not in a good place to make a decision ourselves on how we are as a team that's going well, it's other people who will make that decision on our behalf.
"You have to remember, with teams that have gone well, and Leinster would be the same, I don't think there's much love for Leinster across Europe.
"People will say that’s because the fans are hard to deal with.
"I hear that from my [ITV] work colleagues over in the UK, there's not much love for Leinster and there's less and less love for Ireland around being good winners.
"It's hard for teams to enjoy very successful teams.
"Saracens, before all the s**t hit the fan with them were never adored as a team in England, but they were wildly successful for a period of time.
"That just happens, successful teams will not be loved.
"People get a bit fed up with it
"I don't see it a huge amount, but just from word of mouth, there's things that are put out on social media and conversations that don't showcase the best of us, certainly don't help our case of saying, 'no, we're humble winners’.
"So we have to be mindful of it.
"We've said the same about everybody else: ‘Scotland getting ahead of themselves, Wales being hard work, oh, England being arrogant’.
"I think we might need to internalise an awful lot of that and have a good hard look at ourselves.
"I saw the article in the Telegraph the other day [asking] are Ireland a hard team to enjoy? Are they getting ahead of themselves?
"I would say, the supporters, yes, the team, absolutely not."
Ireland interim head coach Simon Easterby and lock Tadhg Beirne spoke out about comments made by pundits on social media prior to the win over Wales, predictions that didn’t help their cause.
"It’s fodder really for the supporters more than anything and for the media to grasp onto," said O’Driscoll, speaking at the launch of the Guinness Never Settle campaign to bring a revolutionary sensory experience to visually impaired fans.
"These days, [players] know there is an awful lot of noise.
"There’s a lot of clicks and chasing impressions, etc.
"As a player, you’ve got to appreciate that there’s always going to be that stuff out there.
"Maybe it’s your modus operandi to use that to build a case, it’s a very personal thing.
"I don’t think as a team you go, ‘look at what they are saying about us’, that’s for the supporters to go, ‘look it, they’ve lost the run of themselves’.
"Some of the things that were said would certainly, it be hard to counter that [narrative]."
Ireland overturned an 18-10 deficit against a rejuvenated Wales team in a rocking Principality Stadium at the weekend where the home side were boosted by an incredible atmosphere inside the closed-roof venue.
There has been much made of the poor atmosphere for some Ireland internationals at Aviva Stadium over the last number of years and with France to come in round four, it's something that the team will hope improves.
"If you think about the best atmosphere in the world, is it in the Aviva Stadium? I'd say no," said O'Driscoll, who won the 2009 Grand Slam with Ireland.
"Is it, more often than not, in the Principality, I would say yes.
"I don't know if it’s people walking out and going for wees and pints [at Aviva].
"I’m sure that has an effect, but we used to say, as a player group, that there’s a responsibility to give the crowd something to cheer about early in the game and get them excited.
"It's give and take but I understand the frustration of people having to stand up and sit down and do the hokey cokey is pretty frustrating.
"If you are at an edge of [a row], that would kill me."
