VIDEO: Ireland’s fall sees World Cup dream ended by nemesis

Cardiff. The very mention of the city’s name has long been enough to bring a broad smile to the faces of Irish rugby fans.

For years, the national team couldn’t lose here . Munster and Leinster went on to win Heineken Cups in the Welsh capital, and Declan Kidney’s Ireland claimed a Grand Slam here in 2009. Great times, great craic, great city.

We’ll think differently about the place now that Ireland’s World Cup hopes, raised higher than ever before on the back of successive Six Nations titles, ended with yesterday’s 43-20 defeat to Argentina in the Millennium Stadium.