VMTV Rugby Pod | Fiona Hayes reacts to Ireland's historic W6N win versus Scotland with Stuart McAvoy

Yeah.

It's just been an unbelievable, um, day because there was probably a little bit of nerves.

You know, obviously you're ...

I knew this team were going to perform, but there's still a little bit of nervousness around with that many people there.

Ca- you know, can they score a lot of tries? Is it gonna be somewhat of a dead rubber? I, I felt they'd get the win, but I wasn't sure.

I knew they had it in them, but we haven't seen them in this type of crowd other than, um, tweaking them.

And as I said before, that was like, that's mostly English.

This is people cheering and screaming for you, like at the top of their lungs.

So I, I just, I, I felt like they, the way they approached the game and how the game unfolded, it just made what ...

It, it's such a special day for everyone, 'cause we talked beforehand around, I suppose, you know, how far the game have come.

We, we had a chat in the pod last week and, uh, you know, in 2014 it was Brian O'Driscoll's last game.

Probably wasn't a lot of people stayed around to even watch, and it was free entry that day, and there's still, you know, it still wasn't, uh, a lot of people at the game.

But certainly to see how it's grown in those, um, since 20- 2014, in those 12 years, is just unbelievable.

And we talked about the, there's a picture of Aoife Wayfver as a child at that game, and her club, Gorey, have, have written underneath it, "Could be you in 10 years." And 12 years later it was her, and boy did she steal the show.

Yeah.

Record crowd as well, over 31,000.

Mm.

You talked about stealing the show.

Wayfver did it, but to be fair, that first 40 minutes-

Never-

Over 40 points

[laughs]

They knocked Scotland out of the park.

But the rugby was phenomenal to watch.

Everyone was on the same page.