Ireland 24 England 8
Ireland cuffed the ears of the young pretenders and sent them packing back to England in a bit of a huff. Unfortunately though, the reality is that England are in a much better place than Ireland are at the minute.
Roughing up a pack of school boys is all very well if you back it up with performances against more streetwise teams but Ireland singularly failed to compete up front with the same ferocity against Italy, Wales, and Scotland and they could easily, and some may say justifiably, have lost all three instead of just one.
So, was this game a culmination of what Ireland have been working towards over the last few weeks or just a flash in the pan – one last hurrah against the old enemy?
Unfortunately to me it was one last hurrah made possible by a unique set of circumstances that Ireland are going to find difficult to create . . .
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