‘There is a touch of panic’: Ireland given wake-up call by England defeat | Barry Glendenning

Bruising defeat in their Six Nations opener has jolted the champions’ self-confidence but the Irish public are mostly resisting a clamour for wholesale changeWhile they may have lost by only 12 points against England, the scoreline did scant justice to the hiding suffered by Ireland in Dublin last weekend. Outfought, out-thought and bullied in their own backyard, they looked a shadow of the rugby juggernaut that had swept all before it for the previous 12 months. A team and their supporters harbouring realistic hopes of winning this year’s World Cup were forced to endure the rudest of awakenin…