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Sun 03 Mar 2009Ireland beat Wales to take first Grand Slam since 1948
Wales 15 Ireland 17:The Grand Slam famine is over 61 years after Ireland’s only previous triumph, as Ireland produced a remarkable performance underpinned by high tensile mental steel to win a truly heart-stopping encounter that wasn’t decided until the final kick of the game.
Stephen Jones failed with a long range penalty from the halfway line but it would have been a travesty if he had managed to land the kick. Ireland scored two tries to nil and but for the intervention of referee Wayne Barnes, whose wrath they incurred religiously, might have won the match a great deal more comfortably.
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