Commanding World Cup win over Scotland is one of those occasions where you can feel memories imprinted in real time
t’s not in their heads. Not any more. It was in the bar rooms and front rooms of Cork and Clontarf, Dublin and Dundalk. It was in the lanes and boulevards of Paris, where optimism and hope flowed like the waters of the Seine. It was in the stands at the Stade de France, where every tackle brought the house down and the Mexican waves were being rolled out long before the end.
Let’s set aside their talent for a minute. Has an Ireland team ever played with quite this much pleasure? Has an Ireland team ever relished the stage as much as this? Has an Irish team and an Irish public ever felt quite so one and whole? This was one of those rare occasions where you could feel the memories being imprinted in real time, the giddy glee of thousands of people who know they will never forget this moment as long as they live. The All Blacks can wait. There will be plenty of time in the coming days for angst and analysis. For now it’s simply worth lingering on the sense of awe and amazement that Ireland have generated at this World Cup.
Perhaps there should be a slight tinge of regret that one of the world’s most thrilling and inventive rugby nations should be eliminated by a quirk of the draw. But there was precious little sorrow in evidence here, certainly on the Irish side. Just the wide-eyed wonderment of men and women and children trapped in pure bliss, reliving their wildest fantasies over and over again, like a song you just can’t get out of your head.
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