Fans live their best lives as Lions lose out on historic Dublin opener

Friday night’s game against Argentina marked the first time the Lions had ever played a game on Irish soil.

Lions captain Maro Itoje speaks to his team after the defeat to Argentina. Pic: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Go ahead, scoff. Plenty will. ‘The British and Irish Lions’. The very phrase tends to get up the nose of a sizeable portion of the population. Some of them are even embedded in rugby’s everyday community. But this felt like an … event.

It just hit differently.