Neil Treacy
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RTÉ Rugby Podcast · How do Ireland close the gap after a season of ups and downs? · 21 Jul 2026
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it's a season bookended by defeats to the All Blacks two wins from three in the Nations Championship in total but a lack of bonus points at the weekend means Ireland are fourth in the kind of Northern Hemisphere standings at this midway stage three more games to come in November obviously before that finals weekend but your column on rte.ie this morning the headline
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it's been a reality check for Ireland.
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I don't know, maybe you're talking about the last few weeks, or rather specifically Saturday afternoon.
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The reality is that we're looking at a three-way top tier in the world at the moment.
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South Africa, France, New Zealand.
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Ireland are probably arguably in a little tier of their own, a little second tier of their own, where they kind of seem to be better than your England, Australia, Scotland, Argentina, etc.
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But there's a little bit of a gap emerging now between the top three in Ireland.
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Yeah, I did have that thought the other day that there is a marginal silver lining in the fact that I don't have to see people talking about how Ireland have peaked too early all over again.
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Now, who knows?
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Maybe people could be saying it in the Six Nations, but there definitely is a lot of work to be done.
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And in fairness, Andy Farrell and a lot of the players were pretty honest about that after the game on Saturday.
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Let's get into the match itself.
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The mainline Andy Farrell came out of it with, he spoke of the uncharacteristic errors, particularly in the first half on Saturday night, which saw New Zealand race out to a 28-7 lead and sort of hinted that they were kind of a little bit too amped up by the occasion and that maybe the details suffered off the back of it.
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A lot of balls at the front and things like that.
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Yeah.
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And even looking at the errors, like you pointed out, for example, the points per 22 entry was roughly New Zealand for Ireland two-ish, you know, account for a couple of decimal points.
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It translates pretty neatly to the final score being 41 to, or 40 to 21.
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And if you look back, particularly over that first half, the amount of chances Ireland actually did have
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it in terms of the overall gameplay it like there wasn't a huge amount between the teams but ultimately it came down to New Zealand when they had their chances were quite clinical and quite fluid with their attack and Ireland just again uncharacteristic is the word that Andy Farrell used I've jotted down just a handful of these from the first half the ones that jump out twice in the first five minutes Gary Ringrose had had errors there was a knock on pretty much in the first minute from him off a
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off a scrum or a line at a good position in midfield and then as you mentioned in your column got held up in a really good choke tackle James Ryan had a disappointing knock on in the 22 after I think Dan Sheehan had won a penalty to get Ireland down there you mentioned Sam Prendergast kind of throwing the ball out into touch it was after Hugo Keenan's line break down into the 22
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