TheBreakdown
Full time12 March 2005
Ireland
19–26
France
Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland · Six Nations 2005Head-to-head

France won by 7 points.

Scoring

  1. 10’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara3–0
  2. 13’DFrance drop goal · Yann Delaigue3–3
  3. 22’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara6–3
  4. 24’PFrance penalty · Dimitri Yachvili6–6
  5. 29’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara9–6
  6. 32’TFrance try · Christophe Dominici9–11
  7. 37’CFrance conversion · Dimitri Yachvili9–13
  8. 37’TFrance try · Benoit Baby9–18
  9. 50’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara12–18
  10. 65’PFrance penalty · Dimitri Yachvili12–21
  11. 78’TIreland try · Brian O'Driscoll17–21
  12. 79’CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara19–21
  13. 84’TFrance try · Christophe Dominici19–26

Line-ups

Ireland

  1. 1Reggie CorriganProp
  2. 2Shane ByrneHooker
  3. 3John HayesProp
  4. 4Malcolm O'KellySecond row
  5. 5Paul O'ConnellSecond row
  6. 6Simon EasterbyFlanker
  7. 7Jonny O'ConnorFlanker
  8. 8Anthony FoleyNumber 8
  9. 9Peter StringerScrum-half
  10. 10Ronan O'GaraFly-half
  11. 11Denis HickieWing
  12. 12Kevin MaggsCentre
  13. 13Brian O'DriscollCentre
  14. 14Girvan DempseyWing
  15. 15Geordan MurphyFull-back
  16. 16Frankie SheahanBench
  17. 17Marcus HoranBench
  18. 18Donncha O'CallaghanBench
  19. 19Eric MillerBench
  20. 20Guy EasterbyBench
  21. 21David HumphreysBench
  22. 22Gavin DuffyBench

France

  1. 1Sylvain MarconnetProp
  2. 2Sébastien BrunoHooker
  3. 3Nicolas MasProp
  4. 4Fabien PelousSecond row
  5. 5Jérôme ThionSecond row
  6. 6Serge BetsenFlanker
  7. 7Yannick NyangaFlanker
  8. 8Julien BonnaireNumber 8
  9. 9Dimitri YachviliScrum-half
  10. 10Yann DelaigueFly-half
  11. 11Christophe DominiciWing
  12. 12Benoit BabyCentre
  13. 13Yannick JauzionCentre
  14. 14Cédric HeymansWing
  15. 15Julien LaharragueFull-back
  16. 16Dimitri SzarzewskiBench
  17. 17Pieter de VilliersBench
  18. 18Pascal PapeBench
  19. 19Gregory LamboleyBench
  20. 20Pierre MignoniBench
  21. 21Frederic MichalakBench
  22. 22David MartyBench

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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

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.