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Full time19 November 2005
Ireland
14–30
Australia
Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland · Tour 2005Head-to-head

Australia won by 16 points.

Scoring

  1. 8’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara3–0
  2. 26’PAustralia penalty · Mat Rogers3–3
  3. 35’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara6–3
  4. 42’PAustralia penalty · Mat Rogers6–6
  5. 45’CAustralia conversion · Mat Rogers6–8
  6. 45’TAustralia try · Drew Mitchell6–13
  7. 58’PIreland penalty · David Humphreys9–13
  8. 67’CAustralia conversion · Mat Rogers9–15
  9. 67’TAustralia try · Chris Latham9–20
  10. 73’CAustralia conversion · Mat Rogers9–22
  11. 73’TAustralia try · Drew Mitchell9–27
  12. 78’TIreland try · Shane Horgan14–27
  13. 83’PAustralia penalty · Mat Rogers14–30

Line-ups

Ireland

  1. 1Marcus HoranProp
  2. 2Shane ByrneHooker
  3. 3John HayesProp
  4. 4Donncha O'CallaghanSecond row
  5. 5Malcolm O'KellySecond row
  6. 6Simon EasterbyFlanker
  7. 7Jonny O'ConnorFlanker
  8. 8Denis LeamyNumber 8
  9. 9Peter StringerScrum-half
  10. 10Ronan O'GaraFly-half
  11. 11Tommy BoweWing
  12. 12Gordon D'ArcyCentre
  13. 13Andrew TrimbleCentre
  14. 14Shane HorganWing
  15. 15Geordan MurphyFull-back
  16. 16Rory BestBench
  17. 17Simon BestBench
  18. 18Matt McCulloughBench
  19. 19Neil BestBench
  20. 20Kieran CampbellBench
  21. 21David HumphreysBench
  22. 22Girvan DempseyBench

Australia

  1. 1Greg HolmesProp
  2. 2Brendan CannonHooker
  3. 3David FitterProp
  4. 4Nathan SharpeSecond row
  5. 5Hugh McMenimanSecond row
  6. 6John RoeFlanker
  7. 7Phil WaughFlanker
  8. 8George SmithNumber 8
  9. 9George GreganScrum-half
  10. 10Mat RogersFly-half
  11. 11Drew MitchellWing
  12. 12Morgan TurinuiCentre
  13. 13Lote TuqiriCentre
  14. 14Mark GerrardWing
  15. 15Chris LathamFull-back
  16. 16Tatafu Polota-NauBench
  17. 17Al BaxterBench
  18. 18Mark ChisholmBench
  19. 19Scott FavaBench
  20. 20Matt HenjakBench
  21. 21Lloyd JohanssonBench
  22. 22Wendell SailorBench

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Context

All-time, Ireland 17–21 Australia, 1 drawn in 39 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Ireland going in
Australia going in

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