TheBreakdown
Full time17 March 2012
England
30–9
Ireland
Twickenham, London, England · Six Nations 2012Head-to-head

England won by 21 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell3–0
  2. 17’PIreland penalty · Johnny Sexton3–3
  3. 25’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell6–3
  4. 37’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell9–3
  5. 43’PIreland penalty · Johnny Sexton9–6
  6. 50’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell12–6
  7. 53’PIreland penalty · Johnny Sexton12–9
  8. 60’CEngland conversion · Owen Farrell14–9
  9. 60’TEngland try19–9
  10. 66’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell22–9
  11. 75’TEngland try · Ben Youngs27–9
  12. 79’PEngland penalty · Owen Farrell30–9

Line-ups

England

  1. 1Alex CorbisieroProp
  2. 2Dylan HartleyHooker
  3. 3Dan ColeProp
  4. 4Mouritz BothaSecond row
  5. 5Geoff ParlingSecond row
  6. 6Tom CroftFlanker
  7. 7Chris RobshawFlanker
  8. 8Ben MorganNumber 8
  9. 9Lee DicksonScrum-half
  10. 10Owen FarrellFly-half
  11. 11Dave StrettleWing
  12. 12Brad BarrittCentre
  13. 13Manu TuilagiCentre
  14. 14Chris AshtonWing
  15. 15Ben FodenFull-back
  16. 16Lee MearsBench
  17. 17Matt StevensBench
  18. 18Tom PalmerBench
  19. 19Phil DowsonBench
  20. 20Ben YoungsBench
  21. 21Charlie HodgsonBench
  22. 22Mike BrownBench

Ireland

  1. 1Cian HealyProp
  2. 2Rory BestHooker
  3. 3Mike RossProp
  4. 4Donncha O'CallaghanSecond row
  5. 5Donnacha RyanSecond row
  6. 6Stephen FerrisFlanker
  7. 7Sean O'BrienFlanker
  8. 8Jamie HeaslipNumber 8
  9. 9Eoin ReddanScrum-half
  10. 10Johnny SextonFly-half
  11. 11Andrew TrimbleWing
  12. 12Gordon D'ArcyCentre
  13. 13Keith EarlsCentre
  14. 14Tommy BoweWing
  15. 15Rob KearneyFull-back
  16. 16Sean CroninBench
  17. 17Tom CourtBench
  18. 18Mike McCarthyBench
  19. 19Peter O'MahonyBench
  20. 20Tomás O'LearyBench
  21. 21Ronan O'GaraBench
  22. 22Fergus McFaddenBench

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Context

All-time, England 70–54 Ireland, 7 drawn in 131 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

England going in
Ireland going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.