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Ireland beat Samoa on Saturday morning, but that never looked likely to be enough to get us top spot in the pool, and so it’s New Zealand in a World Cup quarter-final next Saturday morning.

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©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Are there ANY grounds for optimism? Eoin outlines a few, and Gerry Thornley feels there’s still enough quality in this Irish team to pull off a major surprise. New Zealand television superstar and friend of the show Scotty Stevenson gives us his impressions of an extraordinary night in Yokohama last night.

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©INPHO/Craig Mercer

We also talk to David Epstein, author of “The Sports Gene”, about Eliud Kipchoge’s sub-2 hour marathon in Vienna on Sunday morning, and Brigid Kosgei smashing the women’s world marathon a couple of hours later.

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Plus there’s Stuart Barnes and why the rugby world wants us to lose, sneakers, and a grandchildren to tell time moment.

 

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