Antoine Dupont named Player of the Six Nations ahead of Irish trio

Ireland have had ten players selected in the Six Nations Team of the Championship but the absence of Connacht's Mack Hansen is the shock exclusion

STAR MEN: France’s Damian Penaud celebrates scoring their first try with Antoine Dupont. Pic: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

France's Antoine Dupont has been named as Six Nations Player of the Championship for a third time. 

He polled 26 per cent of the 138,000 fans who voted to beat off competition from Ireland trio Caelan Doris, Mack Hansen, and Hugo Keenan as well as French teammates Thomas Ramos and Damian Penaud.