Eamonn Sweeney: We have only won twice in Paris in 34 years but this loss really hurt

It's official. We're in a rugby recession. You have to go back to the BOD era for the last time Ireland didn't win one of their first two games in the Six, though it was five then, Nations Championship. Not the Brian O'Driscoll era, the Before O'Driscoll era. 1998 was the last time it happened, a time when Conor O'Shea and Keith Wood were involved in the action rather than commenting on it and Ireland had two different managers, Brian Ashton and Warren Gatland, for those two games.