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Edinburgh - Joe Schmidt called it a "roller-coaster ride" but after the ups and down of a dramatic denouement day in the 2015 Six Nations championship Ireland's head coach and his players were left clutching the trophy.
Having beaten Scotland 40-10 at Murrayfield, equalling their record margin against them, captain Paul O'Connell and the rest of the Ireland players had to wait to see whether England could overtake them at the top of the table with a winning margin of 26 points against France at Twickenham.
England's 55-35 victory confirmed Ireland as champions for the second successive season, their first back to back successes since 1948-49, O'Connell and this team-mates returning to the Murrayfield pitch to collect the trophy in front of the 5,000 celebrating Irish supporters who had stayed to watch the drama from Twickenham on the big screen.
