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IRELAND SURVIVED A nervy, chaotic battle in Cardiff as they came from behind to beat Wales and secure the Triple Crown.
In their first game under interim head coach Matt Sherratt, a much-improved Wales led 13-10 at half time.
But a second-half try from Jamie Osborne on his Six Nations debut, along with four penalties from the boot of Sam Prendergast, kept Ireland’s Championship defence and Grand Slam dream alive.
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Jaysus we made hard work of that, great to get over the line. Bundi and Belham to the rescue. Really have to beat France now, hopefully Ringrose not banned and deemed to have been punished accordingly. Nervy going.
@Stephen Fitzgerald: lucky lucky boys. Will not beat the French no way.
@Basildon Joe: this is one to remind you of after the France match
@Basildon Joe: England did !
@Basildon Joe: But shit England beat them
@Sean Ahearne: yeah but England better than Ireland
@Basildon Joe: I think we have it in us to beat the French. Especially at home. We need to cut out the errors and need everyone on their A game, hopefully today was a wake-up call. It’ll be interesting to see how France go against Italy.
@Basildon Joe: england who we beat a couple of weeks ago?
@Basildon Joe: Nonsense, any team can be beaten on the day.
@Basildon Joe: never in a month of Sundays are England better than Ireland. We put them well away with time to spare in the first match. Plus, England are strong but quite brainless
@Basildon Joe: calm down every game is different.
@Shane O Mac: I’d be more worried amount the french game if the Welsh game was a walk over.. today’s games was a good test that we progressed in imo.. we can beat the French..
I think Ireland deserved to win but fair play to Wales they played well.
@Frank Foley: it was the best game that Wales played in the whole tournament so far, it was nip and tuck for a while
Hopefully the 7 players who didn’t feature today for Ireland’s starting 15 will be fit and rested for France next week.
With half of the 1st 15 not starting today it had to have an impact…. not our best performance, but they got the job done…. credit to Wales today….
@R kelly: it’s not next week. It’s 2 weeks time
@R kelly: out of jail already?
Triple crown ! So proud of team , we need a reality check here with all the criticism, this is a generational team , great times to be an Irish fan , stop moaning and Enjoy!
And why wouldn’t they!! Well done ireland
That was some performance from Wales. They looked so much more cohesive and free-flowing in attack, and their backs put in some really nice offloads. Nicky Smith was particularly brilliant in the scrum. So much to work on for Ireland. The amount of handling errors and penalties that we gave away was simply unacceptable. France will be licking their lips at that result because if we are that sloppy and lethargic again, they will beat us next week in the Six Nations decider and another Grand Slam will go begging. We got the win, but it still feels like a loss considering the fact that Wales haven’t won a match since the Rugby World Cup in 2023. Ireland still haven’t hit fifth gear since they beat South Africa in Durban last July in my opinion.
@William Jennings: does not feel like a loss, silly statement
@William Jennings: The usual longwinded post. You’re an authority on everything. Know all, yet know nothing.
@William Jennings: Feels like a loss !! How can a win feel like a loss, silly statement tbh
@William Jennings: ridiculous nonsense from the septic tank of the journal trolls
@Sinead Cosgrave: we won but we lost:)
@Michael Burke: We barely beat a team that hasn’t won since October 2023 and are on a 15 match losing streak. Ireland were extremely inaccurate and made so many mistakes throughout the match. That felt like a loss to me considering we couldn’t even get the bonus point.
@Philip Kennedy: I never claimed to be the authority on anything. I’ve just given my opinion on what I thought was a very poor performance from Ireland. It’s not my problem if you’re offended by what I wrote. You’re pretty delusional if you seriously think that Ireland performed well today.
@William Jennings: we made 7 changes from our last match, some because of injury, and played quarter of the match with 14 players and at the end of it we had 9 more points than our opposition, it was a tough match, but feel like a loss, no way, that’s a win!
@Sinead Cosgrave: It’s pretty simple. Ireland were not at the races today and we were nearly beaten by a team that’s currently on a 15 match losing streak. The reason I said that it felt like a loss because it did. Nothing about Ireland’s performance stood out today and we are not going to beat France if we turn out and play like that. I’m trying to find some positives but there aren’t any.
@Jb Walshe: Stop your whining and get over yourself. I’ve just been honest in my observations about the match against Wales today. We were well off the pace and it’s frustrating as a fan to see Ireland underperform again in a match that we should have won comfortably. The only troll here seems to be you since you’ve offered no coherent rebuttal to the points I made and immediately resorted to petty insults.
@William Jennings: if we win the Slam there’ll still be fools like you on here saying we played poorly and need to rebuild. Never get the negativity from some Irish fans. How the F does a win feel like a loss?
@William Jennings: nothing stood out? Other than winning a Triple Crown… Loss me ball ox
Kearney and Hogan would give you the green scour with the red rim…
@Gerry Campbell: what about williams
@Gerry Campbell: Horgan has a knack of looking miserable
@Gerry Campbell:
Jaysus.
I hope I never Google again.
@Donal Hickey: Like him ,but he’s stuck in the middle of two flutes trying to be polite .
Goes to show how important a player Doris is for us..he plays 80 mins every game…Conan is a fine player but he doesn’t have the presence or make the contributions Doris does
@Sean: he was probably our best player before he got injured, I don’t know what game you were watching
Scotland robbed. England try should not have been awarded. Clearly held up
No bonus point today could be costly.
@brian o’leary:
I think the costly bit was dropping 21 points in the last few minutes of the other 2 games.
France therefore will win overall if they beat us. Cos of the massive points diff they already have over us. IMHO.
But beat the French and we’re away.
@Jofus Soap: I think it’s slam or nothing at this stage.
@brian o’leary: it’s always been about the slam Brian
@brian o’leary:
Yep.
SLAM.
Or bust
Only got to watch game back there 12 hours later. Fair play to Irish lads for grinding it out – incredible performance from the Welsh given where they were coming from.
Crowley would do a much better job. Put him on for a full game please
Made it ten times harder on ourselves penalties galore
Squeaky bum time for most of the game for
I’m sure The 42 is great. But as a voluntary subscriber to The Journal I’m not paying twice when many others don’t pay at all. Course I could stop my sub and pay for The 42!!!!!!
Wrong choice of captain. The referee had a red jersey on as Sheehan didn’t know how to communicate with him.
Bread and Circus. Your Country has been invaded.
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