Ireland’s Caelan Doris, Jack Crowley, James Ryan, Ryan Baird and Tadhg Beirne after the defeat to New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
For Ireland supporters of a sensitive disposition, look away now. Sifting through the scraps of a disappointing 26-13 defeat to New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago there is very little palatable; crumbs of comfort were not so much difficult but impossible to find in trawling through the New Zealand media.
One writer suggested that with the All Blacks’ three victories in succession that the rivalry had returned to its former one-sided New Zealand dominance.
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