TheBreakdown
Full time11 November 2006
Ireland
32–15
South Africa
Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland · Tour 2006Head-to-head

Ireland won by 17 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’PSouth Africa penalty · Andre Pretorius0–3
  2. 6’CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara2–3
  3. 6’TIreland try · Andrew Trimble7–3
  4. 23’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara10–3
  5. 25’TIreland try · David Wallace15–3
  6. 40’CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara17–3
  7. 40’TIreland try · Marcus Horan22–3
  8. 66’TSouth Africa try · Frans Steyn22–8
  9. 74’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara25–8
  10. 75’CSouth Africa conversion · Andre Pretorius25–10
  11. 75’TSouth Africa try · Bryan Habana25–15
  12. 77’CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara27–15
  13. 77’TIreland try · Shane Horgan32–15

Line-ups

Ireland

  1. 1Marcus HoranProp
  2. 2Rory BestHooker
  3. 3John HayesProp
  4. 4Donncha O'CallaghanSecond row
  5. 5Paul O'ConnellSecond row
  6. 6Neil BestFlanker
  7. 7David WallaceFlanker
  8. 8Denis LeamyNumber 8
  9. 9Peter StringerScrum-half
  10. 10Ronan O'GaraFly-half
  11. 11Andrew TrimbleWing
  12. 12Gordon D'ArcyCentre
  13. 13Brian O'DriscollCentre
  14. 14Shane HorganWing
  15. 15Girvan DempseyFull-back
  16. 16Frankie SheahanBench
  17. 17Bryan YoungBench
  18. 18Malcolm O'KellyBench
  19. 19Simon EasterbyBench
  20. 20Isaac BossBench
  21. 21Paddy WallaceBench
  22. 22Geordan MurphyBench

South Africa

  1. 1Lawrence SephakaProp
  2. 2John SmitHooker
  3. 3CJ Van Der LindeProp
  4. 4Johan AckermannSecond row
  5. 5Albert van den BergSecond row
  6. 6Danie RossouwFlanker
  7. 7Juan SmithFlanker
  8. 8Pierre SpiesNumber 8
  9. 9Ricky JanuarieScrum-half
  10. 10Andre PretoriusFly-half
  11. 11Frans SteynWing
  12. 12Jean De VilliersCentre
  13. 13Bryan HabanaCentre
  14. 14Jaco PretoriusWing
  15. 15Bevin FortuinFull-back
  16. 16Chiliboy RalepelleBench
  17. 17BJ BothaBench
  18. 18Johan MullerBench
  19. 19Jacques CronjeBench
  20. 20Ruan PienaarBench
  21. 21Wynand OlivierBench
  22. 22JP PietersenBench

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Context

All-time, Ireland 10–20 South Africa, 1 drawn in 31 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Ireland going in
South Africa 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.