PARIS : Call it a jinx, call it a curse, call it a hoodoo. Call it whatever you want — at the end of the day it all boiled down to more Irish heartache.
Eighty minutes of thunderous quarter-final rugby in a Paris cauldron ended with Ireland once again at the World Cup exit, vanquished 28-24 by New Zealand. It had been an eighth Rugby World Cup quarter-final for the Irish. And an eighth defeat.
But at the end, as the Stade de France stadium’s sound system bellowed out Molly Malone by the Dubliners, Ireland’s players were left staring into the skies. “Alive, alive-oh,” the speakers blared, but Ireland’s World Cup dreams were dead. “Things are going to change. Over the next 24 hours it's time to make sure we get a smile back on our face as soon as we can, and reflect on some amazing careers.”“The last six weeks have been incredible,” he said."It has been a dream come true for all of us and that includes today really. We showed the character of the team. You've got to work hard for fairytale endings and we didn't get it but that's life.
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