Murphy’s relief tempered by need to step it up a gear

IRELAND full-back Geordan Murphy admitted to mixed emotions after Sunday’s Six Nation’s win over England at Lansdowne Road.

And he accepts that Eddie O’Sullivan’s side need to improve if the dream of a Grand Slam is to remain alive.

“There are mixed emotions about the win over England - sheer happiness and a wipe of the brow that we survived,” he wrote in his online diary for the BBC.