Ireland 30 France 21, Saturday 7th February 2009.

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Stephen Ferris, Irish Rugby
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A good result and, more importantly, a good performance from Ireland.

This was a rejuvinated Ireland playing with power and confidence against a French side who came to Dublin to entertain.

As Ballpark has covered the game eloquently here I’ll concentrate on the performance of the Ulster players involved.

From my vantage point in the Hogan Stand Stephen Ferris appeared to have the stand out performance amongst the Ulster players. He was involved in everything for the 70 odd minutes he was on the pitch adding much needed grunt to the back row and freeing up Heaslip to play his roving role.

There was one point in . . .

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