Ireland Vs France - What Happened?

The questions were answered in the first half - and the answers weren't good. France was so far ahead in the first half, through repeated Irish mistakes, it was tempting to turn the depressing performance off. Then something happened - the French eased up and the Irish started to play. However a loss is a loss (like a win is a win) and the best we could hope for was to win all of the rest of the matches. which includes beating England in Twickenham - yah, right. But then, England were only average when beating Italy, so maybe...