TheBreakdown
Full time11 November 2001
Ireland
35–8
Samoa
Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland · Tour 2001Head-to-head

Ireland won by 27 points.

Scoring

  1. –CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara2–0
  2. –CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara4–0
  3. –CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara6–0
  4. –PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara9–0
  5. –PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara12–0
  6. –PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara15–0
  7. –TIreland try · Jeremy Staunton20–0
  8. –TIreland try · Geordan Murphy25–0
  9. –TIreland try · Tyrone Howe30–0
  10. –TIreland try · Frankie Sheahan35–0
  11. –PSamoa penalty · Earl Va'a35–3
  12. –TSamoa try · Afato So'oialo35–8

Line-ups

Ireland

  1. 1Emmett ByrneProp
  2. 2Frankie SheahanHooker
  3. 3John HayesProp
  4. 4Mick GalweySecond row
  5. 5Gary LongwellSecond row
  6. 6Eric MillerFlanker
  7. 7Kieron DawsonFlanker
  8. 8Anthony FoleyNumber 8
  9. 9Peter StringerScrum-half
  10. 10Ronan O'GaraFly-half
  11. 11Tyrone HoweWing
  12. 12Kevin MaggsCentre
  13. 13Brian O'DriscollCentre
  14. 14Geordan MurphyWing
  15. 15Jeremy StauntonFull-back
  16. 16Keith WoodBench
  17. 17Peter ClohessyBench
  18. 18Trevor BrennanBench
  19. 19Simon EasterbyBench
  20. 20Guy EasterbyBench
  21. 21Barry EverittBench
  22. 22Mike MullinsBench

Samoa

  1. 1Tamato LeupoluProp
  2. 2Jonathan MeredithHooker
  3. 3Jeremy TomuliProp
  4. 4Opeta PalepoiSecond row
  5. 5Kitiona ViliamuSecond row
  6. 6Semo SititiFlanker
  7. 7Siaosi VailiFlanker
  8. 8George StowersNumber 8
  9. 9Steve So'oialoScrum-half
  10. 10Earl Va'aFly-half
  11. 11Afato So'oialoWing
  12. 12Va'aiga TuigamalaCentre
  13. 13Brian LimaCentre
  14. 14Lome Fa'atauWing
  15. 15Tanner ViliFull-back
  16. 16Mase Mahonori SchwalgerBench
  17. 17Faamaoni LalomiloBench
  18. 18Alfie To'oala VaeluagaBench
  19. 19Patrick SegiBench
  20. 20Denning TyrrellBench
  21. 21To'o VaegaBench
  22. 22Silao LeaegaBench

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Context

All-time, Ireland 7–2 Samoa in 9 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Ireland going in
Samoa 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.