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Article: Eddie's ready; O'Sullivan's Ireland good enough to win Grand Slam.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 22, 2005
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Byline: PETER JACKSON
EDDIE O'SULLIVAN does not flinch at the prospect of Ireland doing something far more famous over the next couple of months than beating England again.
No Irish team have won the Grand Slam since the year of Gandhi's assassination and Harry Truman's election to the White House. His coaching predecessors for most of the 57 years since would either have recoiled in horror that any sane person could expect another or split their sides at the madness of the notion.
Unlike some who say one thing and mean another, Ireland's head coach confronts the most challenging element of the Six Nations championship kicking off a fortnight ...