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Mon 06 Jun 2010Experience comes the hard way at end of long season
IRELAND TOUR: Australia 22 Ireland 15:THE IRELAND team which finished this game had five of the side which won the Churchill Cup 12 months ago. From Colorado to Brisbane, Ireland have completed a circuitous journey.
The record books will show a 24th successive defeat to the big three below the equator, but to come within a score of a Tri-Nations team in the Southern Hemisphere with what was essentially a Magners League pack, two weeks after shipping 66 points, wasn’t too shabby.
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