Simon Zebo

Plus worrisome talk from Eddie O'Sullivan and a pleasing gesture from Garry Ringrose.

“Who writes this stuff?” “And on Paddy’s weekend too,” said Donal. “Less talk, more action,” he said with a grin, not persuaded by this chat about a Scottish renaissance. “When Scotland smell blood they really rise to it,” Eddie added. Disallowed because Scotland did a quickie lineout thingie with a different ball to the original match ball, so Ireland were punished for winning said ball and scoring a try that wasn’t. Incidentally, the Beeb’s Andrew Cotter’s description of Hansen was one for the ages.