Wales vs Ireland LIVE: Hosts hammer visitors to claim 2019 Six Nations Grand Slam
Here's how the final day of the Six Nations championship played out
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Wales thrashed Ireland 25-7 to win the Six Nations Grand Slam.
Hadleigh Parkes' try inside just 70 seconds set the tone before fly-half Gareth Anscombe took over from the tee to add a further 20 points as the hosts hit the front and never looked back.
Ireland scored with the final play of the game to avoid being left scoreless but it was a day to forget for them in Cardiff.
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Italy 14-17 France, 61 minutes
Tito Tebaldi's pass is forward and hits the floor, and suddenly Maxime Medard is away, toeing through like Kylian Mbappe and sprinting up the right.
Italy recover the ball and get enough bodies back, but they transgress at the ruck. France go to the corner.
DROP GOAL! Italy 14-20 France (Romain Ntamack drop goal, 63 minutes)
Camille Chat uses his right paw to swat down two Italian tacklers and go to within a metre, but a complicated midfield move stops France generating momentum.
And thus Romain Ntamack drops back into the pocket and slots the simplest of drop goals.
Italy respond with a change, and we welcome Hartpury graduate number two into the Italian back row. Seb Negri is on for Braam Steyn.
Italy 14-20 France, 65 minutes
Italy go the corner again from a penalty, and Luca Bigi breaks away, Yoann Huget just about bringing the burly hooker down.
Tito Tebaldi snipes again, and there's a cluttered heap of bodies over the line. Did Tebaldi get the ball down, or did he lose it?
Graham Hughes will have a look at a couple of angles, but it seems Tebaldi has knocked this on.
Indeed he has. Just the two angles required. He was short anyway.
France scrum five metres from their own line.
Italy 14-20 France, 66 minutes
Dany Priso is fresh on the pitch at loosehead and his first scrummaging action is an excellent one.
Simone Ferrari is put in reverse. Penalty to France.
Italy 14-20 France, 68 minutes
Jayden Hayward snakes through the shadow and into the light, finding gaps between bodies both white and blue and eventually getting past a number of bodies. Italy kick for territory, and France will have a line out on their own 22-metre.
The Cherif is in town.
Loosehead prop Cherif Traore (born in Guinea) and wing Luca Sperandio come on for Italy.
Thomas Ramos replaces Yoann Huget for France.
Italy 14-20 France, 69 minutes
Baptiste Serin screams theatrically as his path to tackle is blocked by Traore as Jake Polledri makes good ground, but Matt Carley waves play on and then penalises the French player jackaling for not releasing.
Another five-metre line out.
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