Keenan hat-trick as six-try Ireland beat Pumas — SkimNews
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- Ireland beat Argentina 42-12 in Dublin’s Nations Championship opener, scoring six tries and securing a bonus point to move top of the northern hemisphere table.
- Hugo Keenan completed a hat-trick, crossing twice before halftime and once more from a clever Ryan Baird offload after the restart.
- Sam Prendergast scored his first international try despite a wrist injury and kicked five conversions, including the conversion that secured Ireland’s bonus point.
- Argentina scored twice through wing Mateo Carreras but also incurred two sin-bins, lost captain Julian Montoya to HIA before halftime and lost replacement Leonel Oviedo to another HIA, forcing prop Boris Wenger to fill in at hooker.
- Craig Casey was selected ahead of Jamison Gibson-Park and won the turnover penalty that put Ireland on the front foot; Nick Timoney also started ahead of Josh van der Flier.
Why it matters: Ireland’s bonus-point victory moved them top of the northern hemisphere table before France, Scotland and England play this weekend, with Fiji next week and South Africa on 21 November still to come. Argentina used two sin-bins and lost captain Julian Montoya to HIA before halftime.
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