Irish run out of ideas in final act

With less than a minute on the clock in Cardiff yesterday you may have noticed the expression on Paul O'Connell's face as he glanced up at the big screen. He knew the score, rather it was the clock that concerned him, and the message told him that the collapsed maul he was walking away from would be the last play of the game. A largely awful game, but he could have lived with that had Ireland been going to Edinburgh on Saturday chasing a Grand Slam.