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Ireland’s Best refuses to take notice of Jones’s barbs

by Our Sports Desk

Rory Best has insisted Ireland will not be dragged into Eddie Jones’s “sideshow” on Johnny Sexton’s welfare ahead of today’s Six Nations clash with England.

England boss Jones questioned the wisdom of Ireland fielding fly-half Sexton following his latest fitness scare, a “whiplash injury” in the 10-9 defeat to France on February 13.

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