Andy Farrell’s Ireland finally emerge from Joe Schmidt’s long shadow

Ireland’s Jack Conan gets in for a try despite the efforts of England’s Luke Cowan-Dickie and Tom Curry. Picture: James Crombie/Inpho

And now do you believe us?

Ireland finally produced the performance they have been promising, in the face of a torrent of critical analysis these past weeks and months, and boy was it worth the wait.