All Blacks v Ireland part III - July 16 8.05am Ireland time

Sorry to hear of your loss @jacothelad - ur friend sounds like an amazing human being, embodying what is great about rugby.

Men like him are who I thought of when I posted early on, those who were there from the ground up. May his peace be like that before a penalty in Ravenhill and his wake like the cheer after the flags go up.

I think the 4th if you include Lions in 70s

Actually that was a 4 test series

Seeing an Irish team go out against the top teams, and have to courage to go and play positive attacking rugby, take the game to them, and have the belief in our skills to grab our opportunities with both hands, is something I'll never tire of. This is something Andy Farrell has instilled in the Irish players' mindset and he deserves enormous credit for that. Previous Irish teams went out to disrupt the opposition, prevent them from playing their game and keep the ball from them, not this one. This one has the belief to go out and impose their game on the very best teams and it's beautiful to watch. Watching NZ players chasing their tails, completely at sea, as we sliced them open for the Keenan and Henshaw tries was utterly glorious. That's what they've been doing to us for over 100 years.

This IMO, is without doubt the biggest achievement in Irish rugby history. Yes it's a relatively poor ABs team, but to win a 3-test serious down there is tougher than winning a 6N and is an unbelievable achievement.

But this cannot be the peak. It must not. We must keep innovating, identifying new talent and improving for the next 15 months. This will all be forgotten about pretty quickly if we bomb at the WC again. But Andy Farrell has done things no Irish coach has done before, so there's every chance he's the first to have us deliver at a World Cup...

Tadhg Beirne's performances in the last two tests will go down in Irish rugby legend.

When the camera panned to POM crying on the touchline I got a lump in my throat. That was the moment of the series for me. All the disappointment he must have suffered following the Lions tour in NZ and to put in the performances he did over the series. Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.

You mean the performance in the first half? Turns out it was just enough!

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if that 2 test 1994 series had been a 3 test series, France would still have won it :p

Watched the highlights and noticed that while Sexton was fairly unlikely to catch up with Will Jordan, he kept at it anyway and pushed him wide. Barret missed the conversion

If we're being brutally honest, the NZ defence for Henshaw's try was absolutely atrocious. I have absolutely no idea what Beauden is thinking there.

The timing of Sheehan's pass for that was sensational, and Aki made a mockery of any insinuation of him just being a bish merchant. He probably could've scored if he tried but made the simple pass.

The back 3 were so good today. Defensively rock solid, and as a group, they really linked up well. Their ability to work down the short side was fantastic. Keenan's try was the type that NZ have scored forever. It was so satisfying to see us create and score like that.

Surprised there's only 19 pages on this thread.

I've nothing insightful to add - I just wanted to mark an amazing day by saying a huge and heart-felt thank you to all coaches, support staff, family, friends, former players, injured players, ex players, squad members and most of all the heroes on the pitch today for giving us all such fantastic enjoyment and absolutely all of the feels.

Lots of grown men who probably hadn't cried in years would have shed tears of joy these past Saturdays.

We salute you !!