Comment: Same old story as Ireland fail to learn lessons

Familiar failings let Ireland down in Paris on Thursday night. 

DOWN AND OUT? Ireland players, from left, Aaron Connolly, Dara O'Shea, Josh Cullen and goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu. Picture: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Death, taxes and Ireland conceding from long range or soon after half time.

On a night when Stephen Kenny’s heavy underdogs scrapped and endured, the same old flaws that have plagued the manager’s reign overwrote any argument that credit should be due.