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Head coach Andy Farrell praised Ireland’s resilience after they survived a major scare to scrape an unconvincing 20-13 Guinness Six Nations victory over Italy.The error-strewn hosts trailed 10-5 at half-time in Dublin before hanging on as the Azzurri pushed to salvage a draw during a breathless finale.

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00:04I mean, that's the bigger picture stuff that we've seen about the character because we
00:09were playing against a very good Italian side that was never going to go away because the
00:15recent history shows us that, of how they've been performing, but obviously it was more
00:23than that, wasn't it? They were trying to batter the door down at the end there, so
00:27the resilience that we showed to win the game was fantastic to see, so that's the bigger
00:34picture stuff. Obviously there's too many errors within our game at certain times, but
00:42the character shown to come back and have the courage to play, the type of rugby that
00:49we did at times was very encouraging, to say that we were under a bit of pressure.
00:58The try there that we scored with all those phases was as good a try as we've ever scored,
01:03so it just shows that we're able to back ourselves.
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