By Gerry O’Sullivan, 16 March 2006.
Ahead of the match on Saturday, I thought I’d post my reminiscences of the last England-Ireland match in Twickenham, 6 March 2004.
I was invited to come to the match by a business contact, and having thought about it for all of about 0.005 seconds, accepted the offer. I’d never […]

Posted by Gerry O’Sullivan, Sunday, 12 March 2006
I was in Cork for the weekend, and didn’t have a chance while away to post my thoughts on the Ireland-Scotland match.
The final result of 15-9 didn’t really reflect the reality on the day. The weather played a major part of that, as it made passing difficult. It […]

By Gerry O’Sullivan. Sunday, 26 February 2006.
Ireland’s 31-5 win over Wales today was a much-needed boost. That they restricted the Welsh to one score in total was heartening. Now they are on four points along with England, France and Scotland.
Ireland appeared to have learned a good few lessons from the debacle in Paris. Their defence […]

By Gerry O’Sullivan. Saturday, 25 February 2006.
Six Nations 2006 is developing into the most open contest in years. As I write, five of the six teams are still in with a shout of the championship. There will be no Grand Slam winner this year, as England’s loss to Scotland this evening means that every team […]

So it’s taken me almost two days to get my head around what the hell happened on Saturday in Paris. Basically I’ve reached the view that Ireland did nothing much different in the last 30 minutes but the French decided to go on their week break a bit early. Having watched the match again there’s […]

So following the weekend’s action serious questions have to be asked about what is going wrong with Irish International rugby. At lower-levels, the Irish sides have shown flair, vision and adventure but on Saturday when the International side lined out to take on Italy all of this was missing. In the end Ireland were extremely […]

So here we find ourselves, just under 24 hours before the kick-off of the 2006 Six Nations, will Ireland do themselves justice or will they fail to deliver the goods. The omens for a good performance might be there, Munster & Leinster have been going fantastically well in the Heineken Cup while Ulster have had […]

Ireland’s hopes of winning the Six Nations were dashed this evening when Wales saw off Ireland’s challenge by beating them by 32 points to 20. Ireland never really got going until Eddie O’Sullivan made wholesale changes with about 30 minutes left to play.

Despite losing to France last Saturday, Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan has decided against changing his starting line-up for the trip to Wales on Saturday. Some of O’Sullivan’s men came in for heavy critism following the loss last weekend but nobody has got the chop.

Ireland’s Grand Slam dream is over following a 26 points to 19 loss to France at Landsdowne Road. Ireland were never really in control of the game but despite this they were still in contention in the closing stages of the game thanks to an an amazing individual effort from captain Brian O’Driscoll to score a try to keep Ireland in the game.