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Ireland Rugby
6N 2010: Ireland 27 – 12 Wales
A war of words has raged this week with dangerous amounts of Celtic passion passing back and forth. Unfortunately Wales had little platform and no drive to win this. Ireland were solid under pressure and even entertaining in places, this was a low-octane game compared to last years Grand Slam game!
O’Driscoll’s 100th game was a win, but not particularly entertaining!
An early setback for Ireland had us worried when D’Arcy limped off with a leg injury, fortunately in-form Kearney came off the bench. Only for Wales to put themselves down to 14 men with Byrne sin-binned for killing the ball.
Keith Earls cored in the 23rd minute thanks to O’Driscoll’s offload, and O’Leary followed it up with one of his own shortly after on the half hour mark. Earls got a second in the second half to close out Wales who’s entire 12 points were Stephen Jones penalties.
Had it not been for Sexton’s poor kicking form Wales would have lost by a lot more (I know we need to get him ready for the World Cup but this is getting silly!), he missed three of his five first-half attempts including a straightforward conversion. He made up for some it with a late drop-goal.