Joe

Hello, welcome.

So a chastening opening night for Ireland.

To say the very least, the ongoing sense that they are a team in decline has been copper fastened.

France a different level entirely.

We'll talk to Ian Madigan very shortly, get his take on the game.

Will Slattery here in studio.

William.

A lot of people wondering if I didn't make it in last night.

Would you step into the breach?

I said in bits and bobs, I saw you outside Ballymount in a suit in the rain.

Just hovering with intent.

Yeah.

God, it was so...

Yeah.

And I appreciate the fight back.

And to be fair, against South Africa, when, you know, there's a comical aspect to the game, the defence and the resolve of the team was amazing that day.

And again last night, you know, coming out for the second half, I'm sure they would have been inclined to think this is just disastrous.

And heads don't drop.

I do also really, you know, I just can't get past the fact that at 50 minutes...

DuPont comes off, Michael Guillard, the player of the match, comes off.