# #61: Ireland vs Australia - Nations Championship Round 1 Review Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-leinster-listen-7601014/61-ireland-vs-australia-nations-championship-round-1-review Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-leinster-listen-7601014/61-ireland-vs-australia-nations-championship-round-1-review.md Podcast: [The Leinster Listen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-leinster-listen-7601014) Published: 2026-07-06T23:38:15+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/the-leinster-listen/2967929 Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/356999/2967929/the-leinster-listen/2026_07_06_23_32_05_3fc8127b-e6e8-4d3c-95fc-6680ce6a8bc7.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-leinster-listen-7601014/episodes/61-ireland-vs-australia-nations-championship-round-1-review Duration seconds: 2024 ## Resource Episode 61, and Ireland are off the mark in the Nations Championship β€” Andy Farrell's injury-hit side came from 12 points down to beat Joe Schmidt's Wallabies 33-31 in a madcap thriller at a sold-out Allianz Stadium in Sydney. Hugo Keenan was official Man of the Match β€” try-saving tackle on Suaalii and the bonus-point score β€” Tom Clarkson's 77th-minute try sealed it, and Ben Donaldson missed two late penalties on a night the Prendergast brothers both crossed too. Round 1 delivered elsewhere too β€” New Zealand edged France 34-32 in Christchurch and South Africa hammered England 45-21 at Ellis Park in two of the wildest games you'll see all summer. Here is what I'm hitting on this week's episode: 🌍 Nations Championship Round 1 results; All six fixtures from the opening weekend β€” NZ 34-32 France, Japan 27-10 Italy, our game in Sydney, Fiji 24-39 Wales, South Africa 45-21 England, and Argentina 38-47 Scotland β€” plus a look at the two wildest games in Christchurch and Johannesburg. πŸ”₯ Overall opinion of the game; Why this was classic Farrell-ball β€” 24-12 down, defence all over the shop in the first half, belief in the closing stages, and a prop burrowing over with three minutes left. πŸ“‹ Analysis of the game events; Pietsch's early try, four Wallaby first-half scores, Keenan's tackle on Suaalii, Gibson-Park before the break, Clarkson's winner, Sheehan's disallowed try, Shaw's yellow, and Donaldson's two missed penalties in the red. πŸ—ΊοΈ Nations Championship positioning after this weekend; Ireland on five points with a bonus-point win, Australia and France on two, England nil β€” and Round 2 fixtures including Japan vs Ireland in Newcastle next Saturday. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-leinster-listen-7601014/episodes/61-ireland-vs-australia-nations-championship-round-1-review/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-leinster-listen-7601014/61-ireland-vs-australia-nations-championship-round-1-review.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.