France’s Maxime Médard scores try to shred Ireland’s Six Nations hopes
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• France 10-9 Ireland• Irish waste chances before French full-back scores a converted try under postsFor an hour Ireland appeared to be cruising to a win that felt more comfortable than the six points that separated them from their young and inexperienced hosts. In the most dispiriting of conditions they were tight, controlled and utterly without ambition. No off-loads, no line-breaks, they needed nothing in the way of flair to keep an apparently lost French team where they wanted – if not far enough behind, as it turned out.For the drizzle lifted around the hour mark, the French reversed some…





