505 : Ireland v Wales wrap

6 March 2026; Jacob Stockdale of Ireland scores his side’s first try during the Guinness 6 Nations Rugby Championship match between Ireland and Wales at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile


🏉 Inconsistencies

🏉 Jack Conan

🏉 Welsh D & Carré’s carry

🏉 Placekicks

🏉 3x👑 favourites?


TOM COLEMAN


FULL TIME TAKES

Monica Baghi

Well done Wales, you fought well and gave us a hard game – Congratulations Ireland 🇮🇪

Lorraine Matthews

Always rooting for Ireland, but can we stop for a moment to appreciate the majestic scene that was Carre’s try? That hunk of human was motoring!!

Craig Grehan

If anyone was thinking that game was gonna be a thrashing they haven’t been watching this 6 nations.

Ireland didn’t play bad just sloppy, trying to force keeping the ball alive at times. But enough to get away with the win.

Great to see stockdale again claim his stake. Conan played unreal and deserved the motm. Wales weren’t bad. In fact they were very very good.

That said, how is it nobody seems to notice looseheads boring in on our tightheads?

But if Porter was on he’d be pinged every time?

Craig Boyd

Probably sums up where we are. Not the brilliant team we thought we were when beating England and not as bad as people thought we were after the France and Italy games. It’s a toss of a coin predicting the result against Scotland

Cormac Mannion

Someone in the media commented this week that it was probably the biggest backline we had ever fielded. However, if you’re going to kick contestable kicks you need more than one of your back three capable of actually challenging for the kicks.

Some of our backline had all the turning ability and agility of an oil tanker.

Despite that, Wales are becoming increasingly tough to break down and are definitely improving.

Dickson had another of his special nights. Why we have had to suffer him twice in the tournament is beyond me

Eamon Saunders

I thought we got away with one but hung In There for a win

John Kehoe

Versus France Ireland kicked far too much ball away; today they didn’t strategically kick any way near enough

Chris McDonnell

We missed the likes of Tommy O’Brien or Mac Hanson to add some energy to the backline. Osbourne joined the line once and scored, frawley added a different picture when he came on.

David Ryle

I saw people from a certain province commenting that stockdale can’t catch a high ball. Caught a few today.

Christy O’Connor

We went from being a team that couldn’t win a lineout but we are now a team that can’t scrum. It needs to be sorted before the world cup

Mick O’Leary

Glad we won, but Wales played great!

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SIX NATIONS WRAP

Italy 18-15 Scotland  

England 48-7 Wales  

France 36-14 Ireland

Scotland 31–20 England  

Italy 13–20 Ireland  

Wales 12–54 France

England 21-42 Ireland

Wales 23-26 Scotland  

France 33-8 Italy

Ireland 27-17 Wales 

Scotland 50-40 France

Italy 23-18 England

Round 5 Fixtures

Sat 14 March

Ireland v Scotland

Wales v Italy

France v England


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