It has been years since the championship last had a match between the two best teams in the world and if you didn’t know that Ireland and France were going to square off again this time next year you might say it would be years more before it ever throws up another contest quite like the one they played out here in Dublin.
They will be talking about it around these parts for as long as they are still playing the game, at any rate. It was Ireland’s first victory against France in three years, and the first, by anyone, anywhere, since the summer of 2021.
