Time to take our rightful place among rugby’s great nations

EVERYTHING they’ve done has been building towards this.

Time to take our rightful place among rugby’s great nations

And by ‘everything’ we don’t mean the past month, or the past year or past four years either.

Rather, we mean a whole decade culminates in Wellington on Saturday. Win and this Irish team will rightly go where no Irish team has gone before. Lose, and for all this side’s many achievements, they’ll have lasted no longer than the Irish sides whose trophy cabinets contained only wooden spoons.

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