A giant rugby ball “crashed” in to the walls of Cardiff Castle to mark the start of the Rugby World Cup. Another, Caoimhe O’Neill, a singing teacher from Dublin, wrote: “Disgraceful lack of planning… lots of people going to miss kick off!”
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As has been said a million times at this stage, the draw we got will have dictated the phasing of Ireland’s training, so the Ireland we saw in the warm-up games wouldn’t unduly worry me.
And it was definitely love at first site as Sally said that as soon as she returned home to Canada, she told her parents: “I’m moving to Ireland“. “It’s a shame because it was a brilliant opening ceremony and an wonderful atmosphere”.
“I think they’ve a great chance if they don’t get too many injuries”.
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If you were a betting man you can’t look past the All Blacks, but in the Rugby Championship Australia showed – and God knows France have always shown – that on any given day anything can happen against the Kiwis. “And on [Friday], things were working well until the unfortunate incident at Twickenham station, which was out of our control”.
