Garry Ringrose explains how players 'got out of their own way' after shaky Six Nations start

Ask Andy Farrell about the key to a high-level Ireland performance of the sort that blew the doors off the England bandwagon at Twickenham and it invariably narrows down to a clarity of purpose in his players’ minds.

More simply put it is, in the Farrell vernacular, players “getting out of their own way”. Through the head coach’s lens, one imagines Ireland’s heads were up in the Parisian clouds and away with the fairies on the opening night of this 2026 Six Nations campaign as France roared into a 29-0 lead their visitors had no hope of recouping, eventually losing 36-14.

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