Dusautoir proud of France victory

France captain Thierry Dusautoir revealed his pride after his side scraped a 25-22 RBS 6 Nations victory over Ireland at the Aviva Stadium.

A solitary Maxime Medard try, 15 points from the boot of scrum-half Morgan Parra and a penalty and a conversion by his replacement Dimitri Yachvili earned Marc Lievremont’s team the victory despite Fergus McFadden, Tomas O’Leary and Jamie Heaslip all touching down for Ireland.

Man-of-the-match Dusautoir told BBC1: “We are really happy, it was really important to win. We did it, but it was very tough.

“I don’t think it was the game of the year but it was very important to win.

“We stayed in the game and scored a lot of penalties but we scored just one try and the Irish scored three, that’s why it stayed tight to the end of the game.

“I’m really proud of my team, it’s never easy to play in Ireland.”

Back-row colleague Imanol Harinordoquy added: “It was very hard to win here, there was a lot of pressure.

“In the end we could have won or lost. We had some luck, we are very, very proud of this victory in Ireland – I think it’s only the second time I have won here in 10 years.”