It’s the third time since the turn of the millennium that Ireland have denied England a Grand Slam at Lansdowne Road.
Excellent news for Irish sports fans is that the two previous years that happened - 2001, as well as the aforementioned 2011, Eire went on to qualify for a major international association football finals.
That’s the best thing I’ve heard all day.
A 2-2 draw for Eire away to a major group opponent in the first qualifying game, as happened this time, has traditionally also been a harbinger of good tidings in this regard.
I just couldn’t see anything other than an Ireland win going into that game today. That’s 6 of the last 7 championship games in Dublin that Ireland have beaten England in. 7 out of 9 if you go back to 2001.
If you take the cannon fodder Italy out of it, 9 of the 10 games were won by the home side. It should have been 10 out of 10 as Wales were the better side against England in Cardiff and really left that one behind them.
The Championship hasn’t been this tight since the 5 way tie in 1973 when all 10 games were won by the home side.
its one of the most competitive competitions in the world
You could nearly say it puts the competition in “competition”.
any word from the army council in the ifsc on how they are going to play this?
Ireland have also moved 10-8 ahead in championship clashes against England played in the 21st century.
Or 10-7 if you want to be a pedantic fuck and claim that 2000 was in the 20th century.
No . Apparently somebody sat on a a rastool that was upside-down. It penetrated so far it hit his high forehead. An EGM now in progress.
The anti-rugby brigade have gone to ground in a big way.
Ireland v England rugby matches at Lansdowne Road always illicit sad memories. The day of the 1993 renewal, IRA scum murdered two kids in a bomb in Warrington.
Im going to have to give that a like 
If I could , I’d give it one myself.
I could get a sin binning for that one though
For those that missed it.
I would have liked to have seen more misery from the 1990s to be honest.
It was a meaningless game bro
Real bottom of the barrel stuff there Geoff ffs.
It seems a lot of people didn’t realise RTE were losing this. Condemnation has been swift.
Elicit
It was indeed. The Italians were never going to beat the Scottish in Murray field.
They will watch “the Devil’s own” and issue a statement later.