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We had a few sobering reads in the fallout of Ireland’s loss to France last week.
It might not be time to hit the doomsday button just yet, but there may be an ominous sense that Ireland’s seat at rugby’s top table is starting to be pulled out from under them.
“So then, that was the week that was. The week when Irish rugby, depending on your viewpoint, either suffered further evidence of a temporary blip or hit a wall,” Gerry Thornley wrote earlier this week.
“Opinions differ among…