O’Sullivan rules out revenge mission

IRELAND coach Eddie O’Sullivan has moved to play down Irish thoughts of revenge in today’s international against Argentina (4.30pm) by declaring: ‘‘We’re not into grudges.’’

Much of the pre-match build-up to this Lansdowne Road Test has focused on the need to even the score with the Pumas following painful defeats at the 1999 Word Cup and in Buenos Aires the following year.

But O’Sullivan said: ‘‘We’re not into grudges, we’re into playing rugby. Of course we’ve lost two games to Argentina in a row and we wouldn’t like to go 0-3 against them.