Sinead Kissane

I don't want to be far out touching it there, but like it's a brilliant story for the people of Cove and Cove Pirates and the club.

I thought it was a great day for club rugby in terms of Robert Ballacoon, Ennis Gillen, Tullamore for Cormac Izachukwu.

But it's a great story because his career was hanging in the balance, which was the three Achilles injuries that he had at such a young age in terms of Edwin Adogbo.

So for him,

to finally earn an Ireland cap at the age of 23 I think it probably would have happened a little sooner had he not been injured so often it's just a great story and it's a brilliant story like I said for the people of Cove because now they have a new superstar that they can look up to and this is something that Irish rugby needs to do it needs to get out more into those kind of places and get those unheralded gems because like you wrote the piece during the week Sinead like Adagbo was more of a tennis player growing up which is kind of hard to believe imagine being on the internet

How fast would his serve be, I wonder?

But you know what?

He could easily have been lost to rugby.

So these are the fine balances that Irish rugby needs to do more out of and get into the community more across the country and tap into these places.

Well, hello from the Stade de France.

It is after midnight here around 12.30 a.m.

local time, but not too late for us to dig into what we saw tonight.

And well, France punished Ireland 36 points to 14.

They scored five tries to Ireland's two.

Rory O'Connor and Keane Tracy are here.

Are you ready for this, lads?

I feel like I'm on Graeme Norton.

It's a good couch.

We are in the middle.

I know.