DUBLIN (AP) — Wingers Tommy O'Brien and Robert Baloucoune scored two tries each as Ireland took a bonus point from a 43-15 win over Fiji in rugby's Nations Championship on Saturday.
The win lifted Ireland level with England and within a point of France in the Northern Hemisphere series. But as a dress rehearsal for its clash next weekend with world champion South Africa, it was an average display.
Ireland needed Baloucoune's first-half double to lead Fiji 17-15 at halftime as it looked in danger early on of becoming another victim in a weekend of upsets in which France beat the Springboks and Wales defeated New Zealand for the first time in 73…
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