Exceptional England give Ireland a taste of their own medicine

Among Ireland's chief assets in recent years has been the ability to strike at a point and time that hurts their opponent hardest, but it was the Grand Slam holders who were shipping the biggest blows at the most damaging of moments on Saturday night.

Jonny May's try after two minutes set a very different tone to the last meeting between these two old rivals when Ireland confirmed their 2018 Six Nations clean sweep with that emphatic St Patrick's Day destruction of the Red Rose at Twickenham last March.