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“They beat me with the butt of a gun. One boy was hit on his genitals. He was in a terrible state. An old man’s leg was broken. There was a corpse in the trenches in Turkey. This is what I saw. But Iran is also treating us badly. I know Afghans have been severely beaten in Iran too,” he says.

The home crowd had things to get their teeth into - Ewan Ashman’s big hit on Eben Etzebeth chief among them.

They scored 10 of their 13 points while Jordie Barrett was sin-binned for a high hit on Garry Ringrose, and whereas the World Cup game ended with Ireland pushing for a try, here their challenge was swept away in the Dublin rain.

It was not without enjoyable moments, though, from Joe McCarthy's altercation with Scott Barrett to Garry Ringrose's crunching hit on Rieko Ioane, who played the role of the villain following his spat with Johnny Sexton.

The complexion was significantly altered, however, when Barrett was sent to the bin for a high hit on his soon-to-be Leinster team-mate Ringrose.