Andy Farrell

Ireland boss Andy Farrell is relishing the opportunity to play for the Triple Crown on home soil this Saturday when his side completes its 2022 Guinness Six ...

We want to play these types of games and we want to be under this type of pressure to see where we’re at and see if we can come through it and what we can learn and keep pushing forward because it doesn’t get any harder, does it, the next away game. I’ve said all along, the harder the task, the harder the game, the harder the occasion for us, the better it’s going to be for us. “It’s what we want,” Farrell said.

Ireland head coach Andy Farrell is "unbelievably pleased" with his side's bonus-point win against England.

But we managed to find a way and that’s all that matters.” “Rolling onto next week still in the hunt is what we came for and we managed to do that. “They spoiled our game, didn’t they?

There were no mixed loyalties for Andy Farrell on his latest return to Twickenham on Saturday. Once, he wore the white jersey on the hallowed turf, ...

Their attacking execution was off at times, but their shape and lines of running exposed faults in the England defence. On that day, the set-piece wilted and Ireland went to pieces. We managed to get there.” “They’re huge (experiences). I’ve said all along, the harder the task, the harder the game, the harder the occasion for us, the better it’s going to be for us,” Farrell said. “That was never going to happen (on Saturday) and we all know that, so you rewind a couple of weeks to the pressure of Paris . . . sometimes you become a bit desperate when you’re playing against 14 men and don’t quite execute. Three years on, their scrum imploded and the momentum was all with 14-man England but the visiting side found a way to win.

It means Farrell's team can secure a Triple Crown by beating Scotland this Saturday in Dublin before watching on to see if the English can upset France in Paris ...

“We’ll expect them to be at their best. In games gone past under that type of pressure, we’ve folded a little bit and the leadership group, I know the lads bought into the job at hand and stayed on task. I knew that it wasn’t beneath them to come away with a victory like that even though they were under the cosh.” We were able to get back on track, it’s something we keep on talking about. Farrell certainly didn’t seem too perturbed by the six penalties and one free-kick that his team conceded at scrum time. But there’s no doubting that there were concerning pictures in there too.

Eddie Jones' heroic hosts played almost the entire game a man down following the shock of losing Charlie Ewels to a red card inside 82 seconds. The Irish raced ...

“We talked during the week about finding a way to get our supporters singing towards the end and we did that. “At 15-15, we wouldn’t have had the composure to regroup but the mental skills and development we’ve done over the last couple of years really stood to us.” “But the composure we showed at 15-15 to stick to our task and come away with the bonus point was something that we should be as a group immensely proud of. We go home tonight to recover very happy. “It’s obviously a tough place to come and we were under a bit of pressure there in that second half for a while and some of that was our own doing. “We became a little bit desperate at times, a little bit inaccurate at certain stages but having said all that you take the rough with the smooth and we came away with a brilliant victory in the end.

ANDY FARRELL and ten players have the curious honour of having been involved in both Ireland's record defeat to England and the biggest win at Twick.

For the likes of Dan Sheehan and the rest of the pack.” We’d a lot of experience — four Lions — coming on and making the difference.” We’ve got a world-class scrum, we know the personnel we’ve got. We probably didn’t respect the 14 men of England enough. We managed to get there.” We were able to get back on track.