Peter Jackson: Never can so few have turned so many tables in so short a time

TRIUMPHANT: Ireland’s Hugo Keenan celebrates scoring a try with Mack Hansen and Jamison Gibson-Park. ©INPHO/Photosport/Elias Rodriguez

Ireland will be officially installed on Monday morning as the No. 1 team in the world, superseding France as rulers of the global roost in due recognition for leaving New Zealand in bits and pieces.

What they did amounted to more, far more than merely beating the All Blacks for the sixth time in nine Tests. The green demolition squads took them apart with a clinical precision and remorseless intensity until there was nothing left of the mightiest of all rugby nations but broken parts strewn around their capital city.