- That's it. Ireland escape. ITALY 11 – 13 IRELAND. Depression. #
- Ireland response is immediate and brilliant. O'Gara for the drop goal. Italy 11 – 13 Ireland #
- Bergamaco misses the conversion. Sean Cronin on at hooker to replace Rory Best. 4 minutes left. #6N #
- TRY FOR ITALY! Italy 11 – 10 Ireland. All the pitch used. Absolutely astonishing play. ON the cusp of history! #6N #
- Cullen on for O'Connell as Ireland rebalance themselves. 5 metres out for italy. #6N #
- Back in the Irish half, Italy wins a penalty. Ireland loses Denis Leamy to the Sin Bin. A man down! #6N #
- Italy back in possession, but being held well by Ireland. #6N #
- Penalty to Italy Scrum taken Italy breaking out! AMAZING move on from the Azzurri ends with a knock on. Kicked by O'Gara to halfway #6N #
- Correction; Italian scrum about 7 m out. #6N #
- Italy Drive results in a penalty at the Irish 10. They take the scrum and prepare to drive again! #6N #
- Ireland collapse scrum and Italy have another free kick. Italy with a penalty now. Burton touch kick from the 10 to the 22. O'Gara On. #6N #
- Break from Ireland! It's on! resulting in ANOTHER KNOCK ON. This is getting repetitive. #6N #
- Ghiraldini takes the ball to the Irish 22. #
- Parisse leads a breakout by Italy. Grinding out inches. Just over the Irish 10 after two minutes of grind. #6N #
- Scrum down at the 5m mark. Ireland collapse. Penalty Italy. Kick to touch on the Italian 10. Italian lineout won by Ireland. #6N #
- AMAZING play by Gordon D'Arcy there. By which I mean another knock on. 1 metre from the goal line. #6N #
- Referee didn't notice a forward pass by Sexton there, but it's all good. Ireland piling on pressure. #6N #
- Awful loss of concentration from Italy repaid with a great chance for an Irish Try. And Brian O'Driscoll passes to touch AGAIN. #6N #
- Rubbish failure to hold the ball by Italy. Jonathan Sexton punts to the rather beautiful 10M lineout. Italy escape again. #
- Paul O'Connell YET AGAIN with a hand in a ruck. Ball turned over. Penalty to Italy at 5m. Kick to the Irish 22. #6N #
- And Ireland wows the crowds with yet another knock on. Italy put-in on the halfway line. #6N #
- Messy play here from both teams. Italy getting frustrated here. It could all go wrong now for the Azzurri. #6N #
- Sexton levelled by Parisse. Hilarious. #6N #
- Sexton kicks out from his 22. Right down to the Italian 22. Now some Rugby Tennis. #6N #
- Parisse very nearly broke out from a wayward looping pass from Ireland. So close. Scrum down for knock on. Ireland put in. #6N #
- Sexton converts and ITALY 6 – 10 IRELAND #6N #
- Try for Ireland. Brian O'Driscoll's 42nd Try for Ireland. Italy gave up a bit. Not good. #6N #
- Much better from Ireland now. Lineout disrupted, and Ireland win a scrum on the 22. Not good news for Italy. #6N #
- And Ireland start the second half with a knock on. #6N #6Nations #
- The clock is red. Bergamasco to take the penalty. Not a happy angle, but… it is good. ITALY 6 – 3 IRELAND Half time. #6N #
- Penalty Italy for tackler not rolling away inside the 22. Tomas O'Leary risking a yellow card. #
- Italy moving nicely forward, but wastes the slight momentum with a wide driven drop goal attempt. #6N #
- Italy Penalty against Cian Healy in a wheeling scrum. Italy are playing beautifully here. Ireland unforced errors devastating them. #6N #
- Lo Cicero comes on in the break after the breakdown occasioned by the forward pass. Italy put in to the scrum. #6N #
- Italy playing some clinical rugby here. Forward pass screws up a great chance for the Irish. 5 minutes to the potato break. #6N #
- Brian O'Driscoll kicks a wayward ball deep into the Italian half and touch for the Line Out at the 22. Italy win it. #6N #
- Stupid Irish play killing the ball earns Italy a Penalty on the Irish 22. Bergamasco eases it wide. Scores level. 10 Mins in 1st half. #6N #
- Johnny Sexton slots three points onto the Irish scoreboard.
ITALY 3 – 3 Ireland #6N # - Penalty to Ireland just outside the 22. Hand going into what was more a clusterf*ck than a ruck. #6N #
- Brian O'Driscoll is awesome. Great vision, nearly came off, chipped and chased overhead, just couldn't keep it in play. #6N #
- Scrum down, Italy put in. Ireland collapse the scrum, Italy Penalty well inside their own half. #6N #
- Gordon D'arcy drops the ball. Knock on, scrum down. Italy in real disarray, but Ireland should have scored there. #6N #
- Ireland now running this. Lovely possession and good territory. Italy in trouble here. #6N #
- Amazing break by Ireland's Fitzgerald. Sexton tackled beautifully well. Knock on from Ireland, advantage played. Attack quelled. #6N #
- Referee mistake there; Italian player held by Irish pack, referee judges it offside obstruction. Scrappy play around the halfway line. #6N #
- D'Arcy knock on in the Italian 10, stupid period played in Advantage. Penalty Italy, back to the Irish 22. #6N #
- Italy don't want to let go. This is a problem in Rugby. Penalty Ireland in their own half #6N #
- Ireland fail to go over the head, and Italy have a mini breakout to a lineout in the Irish half. O'Driscoll passes to touch. #6N #
- Johnny Sexton NEE NAW NEE NAW #6N #
- Scrum Half replacement for Italy. Canavoso on. #
- D'Arcy making great play for #Ireland ends in a Penalty for #Italia #6N #
- Good muscular play from Italy, but they won't be able to keep this up. #6N #
- Penalty to Italy. Kickable. Mirco Bergamasco going for it. It's good! ITALY 3 – 0 IRELAND #6N #
- Idiotic knock forward from Italy in a good period of play. Well balanced first 5 Minutes. #6N #
- Stupid knock forward from Wallace inside the Italian half. First scrum, Italian put in. Scrum falls for free kick, Parisse. #6N #
- Good aggression and forward play from Italy, followed by indiscipline resulting in a Penalty inside their own half to Ireland. #6N #
- First line-out to Italy leads to first line out to Ireland at the other side of the pitch. Great ball over the top from Italy #6N #
- Okay, Irish Followers. There's something you need to know. You may as well unfollow me if you follow Ireland Rugby #6N #
- Ireland's Call: a Brit plot to make sure the Irish can't really get into it. Thanks Phil. #6N #
- Forza Italia! Insegnare a questi consumatori di patate una lezione. #
- Right. Wales dispatched. COME ON ITALY! and COME ON SCOTLAND! #6N #
- Lovely rugby from both Wales and England. Great match. #6N Great clinical match. #
- Wilco is the all-round player. #6N #
- COME ON WILKO. #6N WALES 19 v 26 ENGLAND #
- Easy penalty kick there for Wales. WALES 19 v 23 ENGLAND #
- Lovely passage of play from Wales. #6N #
- Brian Moore is fantastic. Johnny Wilkinson is my mancrush. #6N #
- Lovely passage of play from both England and Wales. #6N #
- That was forward. Stupid. #
- Enormous gap totally exploited by #Wales Stoddart is on my Fantasy Team. Everyone's a winner. #6N #
- Toby Flood is awesome tonight. WALES 9 v 23 ENGLAND #
- Fucking awesome try. Reminiscent of @willcarling #england #6N #
- HEAVE. #6N #
- That should be a straight red card. Dirty cheating Welsh bastids 🙂 #6N #
- Great play from Wales. #6N #
- WALES 9 – 16 ENGLAND #6N #
- Hopefully England can make better use of 10 minutes with an extra man than Wales did. #6N #
- Ooops. #6N #
- Ben Youngs is very impressive. (BTW, Dave Coaches was Powell, now off injured) #
- Failure of discipline from Dave Coaches for #Wales Penalty #England and… WALES 6 v 13 ENGLAND #6N #
- Indiscipline from England again. Ridiculous. #6N #
- Welsh breakouts are dangerous things. Poor hands by England in pressure. #6N #
- Good buildup by Wales there. If the platform gets tighter, they have an awesome chance here. #wales #6N #
- And Toby Flood adds to the pain. ENGLAND 7 v 0 WALES #6N #
- THAT IS SOME FUCKING TRY. ENGLAND 5 v 0 WALES #6N #
- I tend to find throwing the ball straight into touch upsets the coach. #protip #haskell #6N #
- Time for a lineout. Ben Foden incapable of releasing, apparently. #6N #
- Youngs to Stoddart. Rugby Tennis. #6N #
- Stupid tackle from the side on a static ball. #England need to get the act together. #wales another wide! #
- Nice and wide. Come on #England I see Dave Coaches is playing for #wales #6N #
- Love Brian Moore. Love him. #6N #
- New technique for Free Kicks from #England #6N #
- Steven Jones tackle achieves absolutely nothing. Broken welshman. #6N #
- I hate this referee. #6N #
- Scared of Williams and Stoddart #wales #6N #
- COME ON ENGLAND #6N #
- Enda Kenny is right to dictate terms. Learning from Cameron, he doesn't want to strengthen The Pinkos. #
- If he's following my tweets he should probably unfollow me. #
- Anyone know this Dylan Haskins chap? #
- Link to the Bercow Pic Plz? #
- Labour arses forget they sold off forest in govt. With NO ACCESS GUARANTEES. Get it right, pinkos. #
- Blogpost: What I've learned from Day One of the Irish General Election Campaign
- New blog posting, What i have learned on Day One of the Election – http://tinyurl.com/6hhyj48 #
- John Gormley killed the Green Party today. Well done John. #ge11 #
- Brian Cowen is off to chat with Maire Mac Giolla Iosa in Pairc an Fionnuisce. #
- Candidate in the #ge11 ? Sign the Anti-Racism Election Protocol at http://t.co/h5I4QpB #
- Blogpost: Cowen expected to return to career as contract killer. http://t.co/HhDCAHV #
- Still no comment from Labour about manufacturing upturn? #
- Strange. Ed Balls talking economy down on day of enormous manufacturing rises? #
- Where is Ed Balls' statement on the massively soaring UK manufacturing figures? http://on.wsj.com/hr9IiH #
- New blog posting, NASA scientists successfully restart Enda Kenny – http://tinyurl.com/4vh56jm #
- New blog posting, Cowen expected to return to contract killer career. – http://tinyurl.com/4waw7mt #
- Fine Gael postering win in my Constituency. #
- New blog posting, The mysterious case of too many fucking fadas – http://tinyurl.com/4vh3d4x #
- I am delighted forests on political agenda. It is time to confront the Tree Menace. #
- New blog posting, If I were Fine Gael's election director… – http://tinyurl.com/67cjfun #
- Night, twitteroos. #
- New blog posting, Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-30 – http://tinyurl.com/6eycf5r #
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