Ireland recorded their third win of the tournament against Italy yesterday.
While it wasn’t the huge win many expected, it was a win and that’s all the boys can do at this stage.
We’ve collected some of the best images from the action yesterday to help you to relive it all. Roll on France.
1. Ireland and Italy line up for the national anthems at the Olympic stadium

2. Watched by a young Irish fan

3. Johnny Sexton got the first points on the board

4. Tommy Bowe back in the starting line up

5. Three dapper Irishmen

6. The big hits were coming in from both sides

7. Huge leaps

8. Robbie Henshaw on the break

9. Keith Earls with the first try

10. Helping become Ireland’s all time record Rugby World Cup try scorer

11. The Italian hits kept pouring in

12. Ireland’s captain Paul O’Connell tackles Italy’s Simone Favaro

13. The line out continued to function well

14. Paul O’Connell doing his work in the air too

15. But we couldn’t break away from Italy no matter how hard we tried

16. Ireland’s Tommy Bowe tackles Italy’s captain Sergio Parisse

17. Ireland’s Conor Murray is tackled

18. Iain Henderson tries to break the tackle

19. Earls was a threat throughout

20. Ireland’s Tommy Bowe and Italy’s Edoardo Gori compete for the high ball

21. Murray struggled to find much space

22. Tommy Bowe gets tackled by Italy’s Joshua

23. Italy’s Josh Furno goes to tackle Ireland’s Rory Best

24. Ireland’s Sean O’Brien is tackled by Italy’s Quintin Geldenhuys

25. The captain gave his all

26. But the gaps failed to materialise

27. Luke Fitzgerald came off the bench

28. And in the end, the job was done

29. Not a classic by any means, but all we need to do at this stage is win

30. And the plucky Italians gave it their all

31. Time to regroup for the French next week

32. And get our A game ready

33. The real Irish World Cup starts this morning. Let’s do this boys

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