Ireland hooker Rónan Kelleher found as good an analogy as anyone.
“We were just trying to pound the rock,” he said after Friday’s 27-17 bonus-point win over Wales at the Aviva Stadium.
It wasn’t as pretty as the record 42-21 win at Twickenham two weeks ago. It wasn’t as smooth or as emphatic. It didn’t declare Ireland were back as loudly as that win over England, but there was tremendous satisfaction in the way Ireland arm
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