Furball
Evil Scotsman
This isn't close to being correctIreland has to combine from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with incredible political complexity and union is only 3rd there behind Gaelic and Association (football). They've done amazingly well to produce a worldclass backline with 3 journeymen Kiwis, a random Aussie, and a 38 year-old 1st 5. Their forwards and defence are excellent.
All sport in Ireland, with the exception of football, has always been run on an all-island basis from Dublin. Football is only different because the Irish FA was based out of Belfast, so after partition clubs in the new Free State broke away and formed the FAI based out of Dublin.