Irish pack must at least gain parity

LOOK at it rationally and sensibly and you’d have to say Ireland haven’t a prayer.

Whereas Australia have more or less cruised through their first three World Cup matches, Ireland have been distinctly unimpressive.

They needed the grace of God, and all the angels in heaven to scrape by Argentina last Sunday, having also had to work far harder than the Wallabies to overcome Romania, and Namibia.