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Another partial redemption.
From: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
Date: 20080211
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Another partial redemption
It was a familiar scene in Paris as Ireland expected the worst but narrowly failed to find the best
So out of the sandstone blandness of St Denis rolls an Irish rugby story with a cinematic feel. Repetition has turned this into an old movie almost, scripted to Guy de Maupassant humour.
A grisly tale of self-abuse and partial, always partial, redemption. As the Metro rattled back into Paris on Saturday night, underneath the kind of poor, immigrant suburbs that Nicolas Sarkozy plans to power-hose, the pictures and sounds hadn't changed.
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