Andy Farrell praised his Ireland players for overcoming adversity after putting Wales to the Six Nations sword in Cardiff. Ireland’s James Lowe celebrates at the final whistle (Nigel French/PA)“It showed the strength of the group coming through that,” head coach Farrell said of the late change to his starting XV. Farrell said: “I’m delighted to get off to a good start because as we all know this is a really difficult place to start the campaign. “We didn’t have a good enough exit to start the game and we were 14 points down and under the pump. We’ll continue to work on that and ask the players to have a look at themselves and be pretty hard.

Source: The Herald February 05, 2023 02:09 UTC