The Ireland Rugby Socialpublished at 22:55 GMT 1 November 2025
22:55 GMT 1 November 2025
FT: Ireland 13-26 New Zealand
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Conor Murray and Gavin Andrews will be recording the Ireland Rugby Social podcast in Chicago very soon and you'll be able to hear that on BBC Sounds tomorrow.
Then, on Tuesday they will be joined by another guest for their second feature episode.
You can also still listen back to their first episode with Rory Best, who will start his role as Ulster's new general manager on Tuesday.
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Three minutes may be all Tadgh Beirne gets in terms of minutes for his country this autumn, depending on what happens next following his early red card.
'Nice to rectify 2016'published at 22:35 GMT 1 November 2025
22:35 GMT 1 November 2025
FT: Ireland 13-26 New Zealand
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New Zealand's Ardie Savea, speaking to TNT Sports: "It's cool to be here in Chicago and it's always good to come out with the win. We're happy with that and we give credit to the Irish, but we're stoked with the win.
On making amends for 2016: "That was nine years ago but it is nice to come here and rectify that. We'll enjoy tonight and celebrate the win."
On the half-time team talk: "We couldn't get things going and it's credit to the Irish team for putting pressure on us. But once we started to get our flow things started to go our way. We'll look at the first half but overall we're happy."
'A bitter pill to swallow'published at 22:24 GMT 1 November 2025
22:24 GMT 1 November 2025
FT: Ireland 13-26 New Zealand
Ireland captain Dan Sheehan, speaking to TNT Sports: "It's a bitter pill to swallow. To be honest, I don't think we really got going. We saw very small patches of what we were looking for but we couldn't put the whole picture together."
"I thought we were operating about 80% coming into that half-time period. We looked to get a bit extra going into that second half. At times we did but there was a lot of inaccuracies at the breakdown and with discipline, so there's a lot to work on. Hopefully we can bounce back next week and turn it around."
On if Ireland felt undercooked: "No, we said going in that we weren't going to use that as an excuse and our training the last two weeks has been physical and been good. We thought we were in a good spot but things didn't click for us today and we'll have to have an honest review of that."
It's the moment you have all been waiting for as Scott Barrett, wearing one of the biggest coats I've ever seen after his early exit from the game, lifts the Gallagher Cup!
I'll be honest, it's rather subdued. But there are plenty of smiles within the New Zealand camp after that one.
'It has been a downward spiral'published at 22:19 GMT 1 November 2025
22:19 GMT 1 November 2025
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Goes to prove that you can be 20 points up with 10 minutes to go when playing the All Blacks and you haven’t won yet.
Peter, Weybridge
NZ fan here - can we talk about how poor the officiating was? When we’re trying to promote the game in the USA, we’re not doing ourselves any favours with the stop-start tempo, and slow pace. It was worse than watching American Football.
Callum, Scotland
This game shows Ireland are giving the impression they are a busted flush! They peaked before the last World Cup and it has been a downward spiral since then.