Peter O’Mahony ‘Banned’ for three matches

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Peter O’Mahony was sent off early in the first half of Wales vs Ireland and in truth Ireland were always up against it, the minute they went down to 14 men. Wales ended up winning 21-16 with many incidents in the game.

Speaking to reporters this afternoon, defence coach Simon Easterby said: “He’s gutted that he had to leave the field, that the lads had to continue for a large chunk of the game with 14 men.

“He’s going through the process today of the hearing and he’s able to give his account of what happened.

“People make mistakes, that happens. On the whole we responded really well to that. Obviously it would have been far better if we had 15 men on the pitch for a large chunk of the game but the decision was made.

“There were other decisions in the game that weren’t made and we have to deal with that. We can’t look back so massive disappointment for Pete in himself.

“He’ll have to deal with that himself but certainly the guys have rallied around and hopefully get him back into the mix sooner rather than later.

“We could have solved a lot of those problems, even with 14 men, to concede the two tries we did.”

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