Match report
The report is here: Sarah Rendell is in Cork and her expert take on a tale of two halves is below. Give it a read. Thank you for following the updates here! Ireland travel to Wales next weekend, while England will host Scotland. Until then …
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“We had to absorb a little bit of pressure in the first half – a little bit of set piece pressure – but it’s a game we could have gone into ahead at half-time,” correctly assesses Scott Bemand, the Ireland coach, who is hoarse from shouting/‘issuing instructions’.
“We were so disciplined, but there is a cost to that. The second half; a few errors. The yellow card came and we never really recovered from that.” He praises his players for their commitment and development in the last 12 months.
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