Fiji head coach Mick Byrne suggested Ireland fly-half Sam Prendergast escaped an early red card during his side’s defeat in Dublin because he was playing for the home team.

Sam Prendergast’s first Ireland start was eventful right from kick-off when he came very close to being sent off just minutes into Saturday’s Autumn Nations Series clash with Fiji. With eight minutes on the clock and the hosts already up by a try,

Fiji head coach Mick Byrne suggested Ireland out-half Sam Prendergast escaped an early red card during his side's 52-17 defeat in Dublin because he was playing for the home team.

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Sam Prendergast is a disruptor, a player so promising and so confident that at least one of the fixed principles of Irish rugby over the past two decades is

A better disciplinary performance from Ireland would have been one of Andy Farrell's key objectives but an early yellow card for fly-half Prendergast, guilty of a cynical no-arms block on Fijian flanker Kitione Salawa,

Ireland produced a clinical performance led by fly-half Sam Prendergast as they beat Fiji 52-17 in their Autumn Nations Series clash at the Aviva Stadium.