Ireland back on form with crushing win over Italy

Ireland produced a wonderous performance in front of a baying home crowd in Dublin to thrash Italy 58-15 in the 6 Nations on Saturday. Joe Schmidt's side were a completely different animal to the one that went down meekly to England at Twickenham a fortnight ago and easily secured their first win of the 2016 campaign. At the heart of a dominant first half - where they scored four tries - was Jonathan Sexton. The fly-half was back to his perenial best despite copping his customary big hit courtesy of the shoulder of Sergio Parisse, and was instrumental in two of the first half's best tries. Th…