Heroics forgotten after Hamilton’s historic low

After Saturday, it’s just as well Ireland are not coming back here for 12 years.

It may well take that long for the scars to heal and the memories to fade of what was a shambolic performance on an epic scale.

Once again, this Irish team displayed its inability to string two top-class performances together. The heroic display in Christchurch is now sandwiched between two record defeats in Auckland and Hamilton.