In Pictures: How Ireland won the Grand Slam via IrishTimesSport
This was the best 20 minutes of the Six Nations, hands-down, no questions. Damien Penaud had just struck back for France with a mesmeric length-of-the-field try to now Ireland were coming again. Lowe probably didn’t need to do the full Greg Louganis on it – and if the try had been disallowed as it probably should have – there might have been some blowback. But it wasn’t and he didn’t and the best half of rugby in years still had 20 minutes to go. Bliss. Photograph by Brian Lawless of PA.
And in the first 23 minutes in Murrayfield, Ireland lost three of their starting pack. If ever there was a time when the Grand Slam was vulnerable, this was surely it. But Ireland went through their phases and when Hugo Keenan spun a long pass out to the wing, Mack Hansen dove low for an impossible finish. Photograph by Billy Stickland of Inpho.Jack Conan hadn’t bargained on being involved so early at Murrayfield but he came off the bench for Caelan Doris after just 12 minutes.
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