Best insists Ireland can bounce back if lessons are learned

Rory Best is confident Ireland will provide a vibrant challenge to world champions New Zealand at the Aviva on Sunday.

The Irish hooker acknowledged that last week’s display against Australia was unacceptable but believes the mistakes they made won’t be repeated.

“I think it’s going to be really tough. Mentally it’s going to be a challenge. But I think when you look back and let the dust settle on that game — and we’ve been through it — I think it was very frustrating because we created a lot. We don’t normally concede many tries and we didn’t concede many kickable penalties, so you’d have assumed that we could have done well.