Category: Summer Tour
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Deep Dive: Ireland Should Use 2024 to Refresh & Evolve
If you’re so inclined, you will link every tangible or intangible piece of Irish success to a down period. The 2023 Grand Slam and 2024 Six Nations title could be diluted by the Rugby World Cup agony sandwiched between them. Those successes could also be juxtaposed to the 1990s where Ireland averaged less than one…
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History Beckons with Win in Wellington
Never before in the professional era has a touring side managed to claim a series win on New Zealand soil. The 2017 British and Irish Lions drew their best of three thriller, but no one has won a best of two or three series. That piece of history is yet to be written, and Ireland…
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Vindication for Farrell as Ireland’s Greatest Conquest Follows Week of Critics
Win-Loss-Win-Loss-Win-Loss-Win. That is Ireland’s record against the All Blacks since 2016. We waited 111 years for a victory, and since then there’s been four in 7 years, and on three different continents. The neutral venue of Chicago, home in the Aviva and now down south in Dunedin. The build up from many suggested this tour…
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Elusive First Win The Goal for Ireland Ahead of Series Decider
As Ireland go in search of a fourth try, Josh van der Flier looks to power over. He’s adjudged to be held up. Josh has really improved his ball carrying, but this time he’s turned over. One look at the watch, and Karl Dickson blows the full time whistle. Test one is over and done…
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A Warm Up for 2023? Ireland Face Toughest of Tests in Auckland
The wait continues, and could extend days, weeks, or even years. The wait I’m referring to is not in the news. It’s not airports or luggage, the budget or whatever else. It’s the lengthy period since Ireland won a game down in Aotearoa. The last time the boys in green won on New Zealand soil…
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