FANS delivered their verdicts on Cian Ducrot singing the national anthems before Ireland’s defeat to France.
The Cork singer – whose mum is French – performed all three of Amhran na bhFiann, Ireland’s Call, and La Marseillaise at the Aviva Stadium.
And judging by the conclusions of fans on social media, the Grammy Award winner would be welcome to return for another go.
One said: “@Cian_ducrot you were absolutely amazing singing the French and Irish national anthem in the @AVIVAStadium”
A second said: “Omg seeing Cain Ducrot sing the anthems today was so cool #IRLFRA @SixNationsRugby never realised he’s half French!! Slayed La Marseillaise”
A third posted: “We’re back on national anthem watch and that was a solid 10/10 on all fronts by Cian Ducrot there. World class.”
A fourth commented: “Great to see Cian Ducrot doing the national anthem. Up Cork!”
A fifth joked: “Cian Ducrot just sang in three different languages, while I’m here still using autocorrect for my spelling
“That was class”
A sixth said: “So proud of @Cian_ducrot & how far he has come!!”
The 27-year-old treated the Aviva Stadium to another performance at half-time on what was a bad day for Simon Easterby‘s men.
They lost 42-27 to Fabien Galthie’s men to end their chances of a Grand Slam and severely hurt their prospects of a third Six Nations in a row.
It led to one beleaguered fan quipping: “At least Cian Ducrot was good”
Ducrot’s performance was a rare bright spark on what was a devastating day for the Ireland team and fans in Dublin.
Having trailed just 8-6 at half-time, they shipped 34 points is a dramatic capitulation against Fabien Galthie’s side in the second.
That was despite Les Bleus losing the talismanic Antoine Dupont to injury.
The Toulouse scrum-half suffered what looked a serious knee injury after 29 minutes when it appeared Andrew Porter fell on him by accident as he and Tadhg Beirne arrived to clear-out.
A fuming Galthie said: “For Antoine, there is suspicion of a fairly serious knee injury. I won’t go into details due to medical confidentiality, but Antoine is suffering.
“We have summoned [three Ireland] players to appear before the (Six Nations disciplinary) committee, Tadhg Beirne and Andrew Porter.”
He added: “Our players did not return to the pitch. We would like to understand why. On this issue, we are angry. We want to protect our players, there are means, rules.”
