IRFU’s restructuring decision vindicated by Con’s facile triumph

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However, they’d hardly have reckoned with seeing their decision validated so early in the season. This clash at Temple Hill was exactly the kind of game Irish rugby’s movers and shakers want to see less of; scrappy, lacking intensity, error-strewn and won at a canter.

Indeed once Con had begun to stretch their legs after half-time, bagging three tries in 12 minutes, the margin of victory was the only uncertainty remaining.