Full time22 January 1955
Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland · Five Nations 1955Head-to-head
France won by 2 points.
Scoring
- –PIreland penalty · Noel Henderson3–0
- –CFrance conversion · Michel Vannier3–2
- –TFrance try · Amedee Domenech3–5
Line-ups
Ireland
- 1Frederick AndersonProp
- 2Robin RoeHooker
- 3Patrick O'DonoghueProp
- 4William O'ConnellSecond row
- 5Robin ThompsonSecond row
- 6Martin CunninghamFlanker
- 7Jim McCarthyFlanker
- 8James KavanaghNumber 8
- 9John O'MearaScrum-half
- 10Jack KyleFly-half
- 11Alex PedlowWing
- 12Tony O'ReillyCentre
- 13Noel HendersonCentre
- 14Seamus ByrneWing
- 15William TectorFull-back
France
- 1Amedee DomenechProp
- 2Paul LabadieHooker
- 3Rene BrejassouProp
- 4Bernard ChevalierSecond row
- 5Michel CelayaSecond row
- 6Henri DomecFlanker
- 7Jean PratFlanker
- 8Robert BaulonNumber 8
- 9Gerard DufauScrum-half
- 10Roger MartineFly-half
- 11Jacques LepateyWing
- 12Lucien RogeCentre
- 13Maurice PratCentre
- 14Andre BonifaceWing
- 15Michel VannierFull-back
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Context
All-time, Ireland 37–62 France, 7 drawn in 106 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
Ireland going in
France going in
- Previous meeting: 23 January 1954, Ireland 0–8 France
- Next meeting on record: 28 January 1956
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.