Is Joe Schmidt’s Ireland ready to shed tag of once-off world-beaters, asks Ronan O'Gara.

Once history has been made, can you be as hungry again?, asks Ronan O’Gara
Is Joe Schmidt’s Ireland ready to shed tag of once-off world-beaters, asks Ronan O'Gara.

I WONDER what Joe Schmidt thought of that TV documentary last week on Ireland’s tour to South Africa in June. Irish Rugby: What we did last Summer offered an inside-the-tent perspective on the first test success in Cape Town, but it was a series Ireland lost 2-1. The programme went into no great detail on the two losses in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth.

Irish Rugby: What we did last Summer offered an inside-the-tent perspective on the first test success in Cape Town, but it was a series Ireland lost 2-1. The programme went into no great detail on the two losses in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth.

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