A player of the match performance from Championship debutant Joe McCarthy, tries from Jamison Gibson Park, Tadhg Beirne, Calvin Nash, Dan Sheehan, and Ronan Kelleher combined with a penalty and five conversions from Jack Crowley gave Ireland a record 17-38 win in France. #teamofus
Nice game! A hug from Portugal to our Celtic cousins in Ireland.
Pleased to meet you cousin😊
😮9@@Michael-gm6ly
Notorious celtic nation of Portugal.
@@Garrett1240 Genetically its where the Irish came from, Garrett.
As an Irish person living in Portugal- thank you sir. Obrigado amigo! 🇮🇪🇵🇹
From a French fan, congratulation for the Irish performance ! A great moment of rugby! Bravo!
The worst game for France ... Congratulation Ireland. You were very tough. Great team ! You deserved this great victory.👍👍👍👍
You are being very graceful in defeat. That is the true mark of a great sportsman!! Top marks!! France will bounce back. I have no doubt. They will be sore now and will use that to be better !! Allez les Bleus!!
yes congrat to our irish brothers ! you have a very good team well deserved victory ! too much change on our side ! the only defeat that don't pass and we are not gracefull is the quater final against SA we were robed ! good continuation for the futur you will probably win the grand slam ! @@quentinquentin6752
@@quentinquentin6752 Hope so.
Well done Ireland, you completely outclassed us.
I am completely ok to lose against Ireland as long as you guys win the title 👌 Great country, great people
As an Irish fan can I just say the amount of RESPECT French fans are showing us Irish is amazing. I’ll never ever forget it. There have been other teams with fans that only disrespect us. They say nasty things for no reason. French fans are the best in the world truly!! ❤
A bit needy.
The French simply respect rugby and the Irish display great rugby. They would have shown same respect to anyone else unless the team or their fans have a strong reputation for not being fair play. The Irish team doesn't. Not respecting a team like Ireland, that simply shows poor character.
French allways nice not like kick box etc
@@shane-irish Who do you refer to as "kick box"? Please do tell!?
I respect Irish & French rugby.
Been an ireland fan since all of my life, Come on ireland! we believe in yous lads ❤🇮🇪
Throughout last years 6 nations and world cup bundee aki has been playing out of his skin and the same again tonight unreal performance from the big man.. Joe McCarthy has a big future in the green jersey 🇮🇪
Aki is on another level in the green jersey, unreal again last night!☘️
He is Great, and he’s not playing for NZ. Go figure. @@stevenbissett
@@stevenbissettare you actually serious, NZ would love to have AKI in there team as would any other team in world rugby !
@@stevenbissett so you're saying he's not been playing great or was that a daft statement alluding to where the man was born? Either way makes you sound like a balloon!🎈🎈
Your loss, our gain, thank you so much 👍☘🇮🇪@@stevenbissett
Well done Ireland! From an Irish Aussie! 🇨🇮🇦🇺
You was in phuket in january ??
Wrong flag for Ireland mate
Good call? but he is an aussie so its upside down maybe?@@n4s98
@@n4s98yeah lol Ireland isnt in the commonwealth
@@russelsprout2155 I never said that, I said the flag was wrong, polish your glasses and look at the flag again
Beautiful performance ; well done guys ! Congratulations from a French Fan !!
James Lowes Drive in the last maul try just epitomises how hard these men work for each other. Masters of their own job but bloody good at other too.
Great start to 2024🏉Well done Ireland ☘ 🇮🇪 👍
2024 will be excellent because their schedule will be a challenge and will provide a clear gage for them and their opponents. Good luck to Ireland. From a Kiwi.
Best performance in France in a long time on French Soil 🙌 Joe McCarthy was unreal
Surely ever?
Go Ireland ! Biggest team! You deserve ! Big hug from portugal
Congratulations from a French supporter to an outstanding Irish team, a well-deserved victory against a painfully outclassed French team. We can't hide behind dubious refereeing, we can't blame bad luck or missing star players, Ireland was just better than us, period. I hope France will bounce back, Ireland gave us a much needed humbling
Agree with all what you said but the fact that some key players were missing is part of the problem. Not because they are key players but because the team is used to playing with those players. The French team we saw last night was a makeshift team and they couldn't be in synch. You can have all the best players you want if they aren't in total cohesion they cannot win at such level. Against a top Irish team it shows even more. They will have to learn to play together. Meaning that Galthié will have to find another option that his 2019 backbone. This is heading this way but they need time to find that cohesion. I guess the tournament is lost for France but at least it will serve to create a new cohesion for the team and when the key players will be back they will have to learn to play all together with the various combinations. So far France relied too much on the same players to bring that cohesion.
Of course you’ll bounce back!! I feared for ireland in this game - First round, toughest match - no Johnny sexton- against an opposition who are awesome on their day.. And in their own back yard!!! I felt if we could just stay with France.. make the game tight.. settle for a loosing bonus point would be a good result. Chasing a game with 14 for so long is too much at this level and your team got over the line before the break when they really had to. That shows true character.. It sent a tone and the game very much alive. Ireland played very well today and fortunately for us, France were not quite themselves? You will come good! Allez Les Bleus!!
@@puccaland True, being deprived of our usually stellar pair of Half-Backs and some of our best locks, blind-side flankers and wingers really did show, and for some reasons we never played with the full 2022 grand slam line-up again, but last year, Ireland undressed France all the same, despite most of our best players being on the field... Still, there might be some hope left for the future, considering the up-and-coming U20 World Cup winners who will bring much needed fresh blood. In 2020, Galthié let many young, talented and green players in, maybe it's Time to part with some disappointing veterans... We'll see
@@michaelmcnamara4838 Thanks for these kind words. We lacked humility and team cohesion while Ireland had those in spades! I almost believed in a comeback when Ireland was only +7 on the lead, but hey, we did not deserve it last night. French supporters and players are still haunted by the string of underwhelming and infuriating performances between 2012 and 2019. Being knocked out of the 2023 World Cup and thoroughly defeated Yesterday really brought back some nasty memories. Seems like les Bleus didn't get over the 2023 Quarterfinals yet, another lesson we should take from Ireland. Next up is Scotland, they've been the bane of French Rugby in 2020 and 2021, defeated us once during WC preparation, and are probably the second strongest team nowadays. Les Bleus need to pull their fingers out and do some soul-searching ASAP. I hope Ireland will keep on playing this good, and we really learn from this defeat.
@@Prof_de_Jeux Yes but last year it was the all time best Irish team. A mature team when the French team was still in the middle of its gaining maturity process to be ready at the WC. There was no reason why France wouldn't lose against them. They couldn't remain undefeated forever and Ireland was number one or soon to be, don't remember. But this time, although that Irish team is strong, it is also a new team being built in Ireland with key players gone for good. They were totally in synch as if they had played in this configuration for years. If the French team had aligned more players used to playing together at this level the scenario wouldn't have been the same. The score is the same as last year but let's not forget that the French played at 14 most of the game. Any other team would have been crushed by the Irish side. At this level every single detail counts. The French were clearly out of their depth like they couldn't communicate properly. The Irish managed to be back on business right away the French didn't. Dupont, Ntamack etc aren't missed because they are great players, but because of their reading of the game and the cohesion they bring to the team.
It's difficult for French fan but un grand bravo to Ireland, very nice team !
The gap yesterday was tremendous, Ireland played some sweet rugby. Cheers to you guys, Sexton may be gone, but you still have beautiful days to come! I hope France can refocus for the next games.
Congratulations Ireland win an great game I m from Afghanistan international cricket player an I m live in Ireland I Wana always support Ireland in all games
CONGRATULATIONS to each and every man on this team. You were all BRILLIANT. God Bless You All - FROM-. Co. Mayo. 🙏🇮🇪🙏
If Aki had stayed in NZ, he wouldve probably be retiring or playing some rugby in Japan, and never getting picked by NZ. He really is playing so well for Ireland and on international stage.
the best rugby team in the world!!!!!! ireland 😊😊😊😊😊😊
Congrats ! The Irish team were too strong in all tonight. The XV de France was beaten by stronger than him. Well done to you and good luck for the Grand Slam. A French supporter (I would be delighted if Ireland could put the same price on England 😅)
Greetings from Sydney, so many man of the match performances. Pack were immense. Massive fan of Doris, big moment player. Beirne, Aki, Keenan are world class. I hope this team goes on to break lots of records. Pleasure to watch
@@stevenbissett🤡🤡🤡
@@stevenbissett Bahaha you sound like you're trying to convince yourself of that
Shame you don’t give up, yawn 🥱 @@stevenbissett
@@stevenbissettFat lot NZ know about the Lord,.when you need to summon up demons to win a game for you. No wonder you get so many earthquakes. Go find your happy pills.
A first class performance from Ireland and all the new guys played great. Which Makes the world cup disaster even the harder to take.
In the QF when Sexton was out on his feet for the last 15 minutes, why didn't they trust Crawley.
Lost by a score no diaster thats life
Ireland are probably the worlds best team. Yes, I know the Boks won the world cup but that final was a 15 vs 14 farce and the team with 14 looked to be the better quality side. Ireland or New Zealand for #1 , then springboks then france.
Never underestimate Dan Sheehan at the back of maul!!!
Or Kelleher👍
Or the All Blacks 😂
@@carldavis9059 or the French..😂😂😂😂😂😂
Or Willy wonka 😜
No-one does.
Delighted for Nash
After years of Barnes punishing ireland I loved this English ref I taught he had a good game
Really??? What game were you watching?
@@jonathandonohoe7332 stook
Louster of a win! Bang-on Iwerdhon! All the best from a Celtic cousin.
Such a fantastic performance!! I didn't see it coming. Fantastic Marseille crowd, hopefully we get to see more matches played there
Half the stadium came from Ireland and the rest, the usual French rugby fans came from all over lol. So any stadium will do.
Most respectful fans ever
The Ireland team is a tough call for anyone these days but I would sooner play against Ireland on my own rather than face Sean Edwards, like that French team has to when they come off the pitch. He will be going ballistic.
Well done Ireland. Love from 🇿🇦
That is a team , well done Ireland!
A sad return to rugby for France, I hope to see them pick things up and light up the rest of the competition, amazing Ireland, no World Cup hangover, back to business and great performances from the youngsters
Great to see the young guns stepping up for Ireland. They were brilliant.
Go dem Zoomers! 😂
Congrats from England, amazing performance... Proves what could have been in the world cup .. Keep the spine of this team for the next world cup and they will definitely be one of the favourites...
Ali really epitomises the spirit in this Irish team
Ireland are going to win this years 6 nations without a doubt. What a team.
No man, don't get and gubb them now, please fella.
Don't jinx it.
One game at a time
@@stevenbissett Ireland living rent free in your mashed mind. Go play with your dolls
@@stevenbissettFYI this is the 6 nations, not the RWC. Easy to see what is in your head, not much.
👏👏👏 ireland. The best team 🏆from 🇨🇵
The men in GREEN were just brilliant!So proud!
The green machine will be waiting for them in SA 🏉🏉🏉🏉
Brilliant my ass. The Froggies played with 14 for near 60 minutes. Game should have been a cracker, instead it was a foregone conclusion at 31 minutes with plenty ground and pound boredom to seal the deal.
@@RuggaDebuggersteroid junkie*
@@stevenbissett Are you someone special then?
@@stevenbissett Have you ever denounced the 2011 World Cup Final or are you proud of the way France were robbed by the ref for your team's benefit?
Iv now watched this maybe 8/9 times.... great play by Eire great game. Love it.
Good job Ireland! Can't wait for SA vs Ireland in July
Powerful performance from the irish. Looking good. 😊
Even james ryan not starting did nothing wrong last few years one lost and we return awesome squad we have
knew from 15 minutes into the match that potm had to be big joe mccarthy!!! unreal performance
McCarthy was good but Beirne is their most important player outside of JGP
He's undroppable. Unless they play him at 6 James Ryan is going to have to get used to being a bench player from now on
@@Poppillon I just think Beirne goes too well at 5 to move to 6. I think that when active mobile locks get moved to 6 they get a bit exposed. He’s actually one of the form 5’s in the world so might as well stay there. Lineouts, breakdown, carries, tackles, passes, he has it all.
Ringrose porter sheehan dorris lowe kennan furlong joe etc etc we are a team
I wish France all the best in their remaining games
Really really impressive performance as usual 👏 you lot are on the brink of changing rugby 🔥🔥🇮🇪🇿🇦
Congratulations !! Poor France... Ireland won fair and square. You are the big cat of this 6N, all the luck 🍀! 🇨🇵🤝🏻🇮🇪
Forwards were awesome and created the platform for victory. Great debuts and overall team performance. 😊
Wow they are looking like world cup winners!?............
Excellent performance!
Yeah, Man!!! Come on ye boys in green!! What a performance!😁😆
Ireland was very impressive. Blew France away.
If you're South AfriCAN, you have to support Ireland. Its written somewhere in the Bible 😂
Im Irish and I supported SA in the final. Ye are an amazing team.
WC hangover strikes for france. skipper seemed weighed down by it last night.
Great Ireland build up for 2027 world cup❤❤❤ love to watch how they play.
@@stevenbissettWe just need a break the draw was in nightmare for a world number one team.
@@stevenbissett they irish beat ye up in yer home ground .embarrassing yer kiwi heart,s😂😂😂😂😂 ye choked in yer own backyard mate.😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@michaelmoynihan9591 love the Irish but ya choked when you were suppose to send us home 😂
@@stevenbissettDon't be so hard on NZ for losing a home series.
One game at a time
8:25 under rated discipline for nash to stay on the wing and not come into ruck great work
So bloody DELIGHTED
Well done lads. Start visualising that next QF win well in advance 😅
Kudos to Ireland, a comprehensive victory on a not-so-disappointing French side, since everybody knew that something was broken since "that" quarter-final. We'll have one or two difficult years and shall rebuild for the next RWC (without illusions since Rugby World will always find a way to prevent the French from winning it, now we know), hopefully replacing half of the team quickly and building upon that. (side note: I think that Ramos is shite, contrarily to many)
Ireland best team in the world
Great to see the quarterfinals start the year good.
I love French tears!!! 😂😂😂. All talk and no bite! They don't have it in them to dig deep.
French tears? En France,nous sommes champions du monde dans beaucoup de sports alors qu en Irlande,il n y a que le rugby et jamais une demie finale de coupe du monde.C est vous qui pleurez.
Always baffling why editors think refereeing decisions deserve more airtime than actual rugby
When France beget frustrated on they're own soil they start to lose all discipline and resort to playing dirty. Really well deserved red card. Weldone Ireland, fine start to the tournament!
What the hell are you talking about? The game was pretty clean. None of them were on purpose. The big fouls came from one player only. Willemse was out for a long time, hadn't played with the team for a long time and made mistakes. He didn't do it on purpose. Stop making up stories to fuel some nationalistic propaganda. The French weren't frustrated but disorganised.
@@puccaland Look closely, he led with his shoulder on both occasions. He knew exactly what he was doing and that's pretty dirty. He could have snapped a neck with those tackles. If I were an official I'd ban him from playing rugby for life, the big dope!
@@stephenflood3463 Alright, you're right but the dozens of officials who reviewed the issues are wrong. Perhaps you should apply for the job?
@@puccaland He should be banned for the rest of the six nations tournament, end of.
Should have been a red the first time
French TV director, making sure he only showed 1 replay angle for France's 2nd try ! Never a try, in my opinion, and straight after the try was given by the TMO we got a much closer angle, which clearly showed the ball wasn't grounded over or on the line before he lost possession, he even trys to grab the ball afterwards, why do that if you've already scored the try !
Well played, shame about the World Cup!
I'm not sure which region that Irishman Bundee Aki hails from but they sure know how create those openings and score !
5:09 That delayed disguised short pass to Byrne was brilliant. At the time i thought it was just awful defending because i didnt actually see the pass live, i think everyones eyes (including mine) had moved away from Byrne thinking he had overrun and would not receive the ball, also Byrnes inward running angle opened a massive gap outside him where Lowe and Henshaw had looped around and looked like the main attacking threat, that half second pass delay and the widening gap outside forced Danty to take a half step out, Crowleys quick look back to James Lowe, it looked like Byrne had already run ahead of Crowley and the defenders were just shifting their focus across to the second line when the almost sleight-of-hand pass was suddenly in Byrnes hands and he has was galloping free. Worth re-watching the subtle elements of that pass again. That try involved so much more than what i saw live. Kind of sums up Irelands attack, never quite sure where the ball is going, options all over the place and defenders end up slightly out of position, attackers tend to get hit with soft shoulders allowing them to get over the gain line nearly every time.
Well done ☘
Thanks for putting this together @IrishRugby TV. A Quibble. Do we need all the replays of the TMO stuff?
Ireland was a better team..They desserves their victory..
*CONGRATULATIONS* !!! Even the current RWC champs - *Springboks* - couldn't beat Ireland! Now go on and beat England with double that margin!
They couldn't beat new zealand,you win some, you lose some.Springnoks win games that matters
@@phil23915 Thanks to outrageous refereeing yes they do.
Win the games that matter..Ireland Choke
@@georgeioannou2526 A bloody romanian giving advice on rugby. PO
I would rather watch Ireland play proper rugby than watch SA play their version of ‘rugby’ - but whatever wins, right? Amazing game, to both teams!
SA plays to their strengths which is their physicality... physicality is part of the game of rugby. If you were a long time rugby supporter you would no that... hope you never get to watch the boks play again seeing that your hapiness depends on it
I didn’t say I wouldn’t watch their rugby, I said I would rather watch this type, over their TYPE of rugby. Seems like you’re the one offended by others no enjoying their type… watch it, your happiness depends on it, it seems 😉
what has SA got to do with this game? @@rosak8480
Lovely rugby from Ireland..can they take this through the next world cup..maybe the new format will help break the quarters hoodoo..from sa the home of the work champions
Well done to the men in green, though it really saddens me to see that poor level to the team I normally support... without Dupont, I feel like France is going back to it's dark age of French rugby, when they used to be beaten by everyone. I unfortunately expect more defeat to come for France, and against average teams, like England for example. The Scots could easily beat us, since they're in much better shape than England. The only teams we could still defeat at the moment are the Welsh and Italians. Goodbye, my strong French team 😢
Scotland defeated France several times under Galtier's era, when we were supposedly superior...
@@ogamiitto8627 did I say otherwise ? No
@@ytevysbhtb No need to compare England and Scotland to conclude that Scotland can beat us, that's my point. They did beat us anyway lastly, they're our pet peeve.
@@ogamiitto8627 I did that because I consider Scotland as a good team now. Not as good as Ireland, but still good enough to be considered with caution before playing them. But even England who's an average team who improved since last time we beat them at Twickenham, can now defeat us, that's my point. I don't mean to disrespect any team
Joe McCarthy was like a second row doing slalom with that french pack
Well done Ireland.👍🏻
7:40 Brilliant carries from McCarthy and Lowe
6/2 split works Matt
Like the french back in the day they could run a ball and they were above the rest i still love the french rugby
Just wondering am I the only one that saw Hugo Keenan being deliberately kicked in the balls.
I saw him on the ground covering his balls but I didn't know someone kicked him deliberately. that should be reviewed.
Would be good to see George and Portugal be added to make the 8 nations.
Ryle Nugent’s commentary technique: When someone scores a try: Repeat the same words. REPEAT THE SAME WORDS! REPEAT! THE! SAME! WORRRRRRDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
Rugby's fucked with all this over officiating. It's killing the spectacle and significantly influencing results. Not to condone dangerous tackles but when the video ref decides a game it's shithouse
Decision from the bunker! Space capsule more like.
Predictions 👀 🇮🇪Grand Slam🏆🥇 🏴Wales 2nd 🥈 🇫🇷France 3rd 🥉 🏴Scotland 4th 🇮🇹Italy 5th 🏴England 🥄🤣🤣
@@stevenbissett🤡🤡🤡
@@stevenbissettYe choked the final that ye thought was in the bag and have been crying since about the officials. 4 more years . Tana Umaga was right ( Bandwagon supporters when winning and the worst critics when losing )
VIVA LA IRELAND! 🎉😂
I'll never forgive the French after what Thierry Henry did. I don't even care that this is a rugby game.
The Irish have destroyed Irish soccer not the French. You should look to the FAI incompetence not FIFA corruption. The mismanagement and corruption within the organisation by its governing body is criminal. Look at grassroots of soccer rugby and GAA and you'll see the problems clearly. Theivery
Some of those lineout throws weren't straight 😂
France needed Antoine Du Pont to give Ireland a proper challenge.
Why no number on Aki's jersey?
Yes, it was a convincing win. However, France were down a man for 2/3 of the game and they didn't have their champion, Du Pont, so that should temper overconfidence in the Irish camp. The game against England in Twickenham is still ahead and it should be remembered that they gave the world champions, South Africa, a strong challenge in the semi final of the World Cup. It's very premature to be thinking about an Irish Grand Slam at this point.
Me apasiona el Rugby y siento debilidad por Francia, pero no se puede jugar tan agresivo sin que pagues las consecuencias. Espero que la selección aprenda de esta lección y vuelva el romanticismo a su juego
The French were totally out of their depth most of the game. Not enough against an Irish team totally in synch and in control. Victory totally deserved for Ireland. The French will get their act together when all the key players will be back.
I think this was a case of Ireland playing well and France playing badly. Well done Ireland.
Why was Bundee Aki wearing a jersey with no number?
Because he's a Jedi
I presume he changed it because of blood. That has happened before
His numbered jersey was torn. That was a replacement.
@@stevenbissettback to sleep mate..French battered allblacks again😂😂😂 easy group they allmutt,s had..really superrugby is dying. In 4 year,s ye won't be in top ten.rapid demise.back in you,r kiwi box mate. .
@@stevenbissett degroot ....lomax rather be in aussie jersey.😂😂😂😂.not to mention other sout sea boy,s....any kiwi,s in that allblacks team.😂😂