Ireland’s Triple treat

NO doubt, some day we’ll pay for this! You could say it was the luck of the Irish in St Patrick’s week but to hell with that. Ireland were overdue a rub of the green and it came in spades on Saturday when they caught England on the line to claim a second Triple Crown in three years, complete a hat-trick of victories over the “auld enemy” and even run up a record total of 28 points.

Can you just imagine the uproar that would have ensued at Lansdowne Road had it been Ben Cohen scoring the first try rather than Shane Horgan.

How irate we would have been if it had been Horgan and not Cohen whose touchline throw immediately prior to Denis Leamy’s try was disallowed. I have no doubt the ball was out of play immediately before Horgan availed of his hapless opponent’s gaffe and so the score should not have been allowed. Fault Scottish touch judge Rob Dickson who actually raised his flag only to take it down again.