Ireland red hot to slay Dragons

Ireland are red hot 1/4 and 9 points favourites with Paddy Power to keep their Triple Crown hopes on the road at Croke Park on Saturday.

Punters have been piling cash onto Delcan Kidney’s unchanged XV in anticipation of an easy victory after the edge of the seat finish against England. Paddy Power had set the handicap on the match at 8 points, but pure weight of cash has forced the bookie to up it’s prediction to a 9 point Irish victory.

Irish fans can relish the fact that they as short as 4/9 to complete the Wales/Scotland double that will see us crowned Triple Crown Champions yet again, but will rue the fact that it’s France who are almost certain at 1/5 to clinch our Grand Slam.

England are 4 points favourites over Scotland in Edinburgh and France are a massive 24 points clear in the betting over Italy.

Paddy Power said, “It’ll be a disaster at this stage if we don’t even get a Triple Crown out of the season, and the way the money’s pouring in it seems that everyone thinks it unlikely. If everyone at the match puts their mouth where their money is, there’ll be some noise in Croker on Saturday!”

Match Betting

• 1/4 Ireland
• 22/1 Draw
• 3/1 Wales

Handicap Betting

• 10/11 Ireland (-9)
• 20/1 Handicap draw
• 10/11 Wales (+9)

Other matches

• 10/11 Scotland (+4)
• 20/1 Handicap Draw
• 10/11 England (-4)
• 10/11 France (-24)
• 22/1 Handicap Draw
• 10/11 Italy (+24)

Six Nations Outright

• 1/50 France
• 14/1 Ireland
• 20/1 England

Triple Crown

• 4/9 Ireland
• 13/8 No Winner

Grand Slam

• 1/5 France
• 10/3 No Winner

Ireland v Wales

First Try

• 9/1 T. Bowe
• 10/1 K. Earls
• 12/1 B. O’Driscoll
• 14/1 G. Murphy
• 14/1 G. D’Arcy
• 16/1 D. Wallace
• 16/1 R. Kearney
• 16/1 J. Heaslip
• 25/1 S. Ferris
• 28/1 T. O’Leary
• 28/1 R. O’Gara
• 33/1 J. Sexton
• 33/1 E. Reddan
• 40/1 P. O’Connell
• 40/1 C. Healy
• 40/1 T. Buckley
• 40/1 S. Jennings