PETER O’MAHONY’S wife Jessica joked “Ralph has made it to Netflix” after posting a video of her son reacting to his cameo in the Six Nations documentary.
The second season of the doc focused on the 2024 Championship, which Ireland won for back-to-back titles.
Peter O’Mahony captained Ireland to that honour, having succeeded Johnny Sexton as skipper following his retirement after the Rugby World Cup.
The Netflix doc showed a number of clips of Ireland players and fans celebrating, including O’Mahony and his young son Ralph.
Jessica shared a precious video of Ralph watching his celebrations with his dad, commenting: “Ralph made it to Netflix”.
Ireland began the defence of their Six Nations title in style with a 27-22 win over England at the Aviva Stadium.
O’Mahony started the game on the bench, with Caelan Doris filling in as captain.
Simon Easterby – who is filling in as interim head coach during Andy Farrell‘s secondment with the Lions – will be hoping to build on that result when they face Scotland.
They are in danger of being without Mack Hansen and Finlay Bealham, both of whom picked up injuries against Steve Borthwick‘s men.
Yet even before learning of those fitness doubts, Easterby warned that Ireland will have to improve on their performance against their neighbours.
He said: “It was tough and physical and what you expect from an Ireland-England game.
“The first half, it was the first round of the Six Nations…it’s always going to be a bit of an arm wrestle so we had to find a way.
“I thought we played well in the first half, we didn’t quite get our accuracy right which is why they were leading.
“But we cleaned it up in the second half. The guys coming off the bench benefited from the work done by the guys who started, it was a tough attritional game.
“We know we need to be better next weekend. It sets us up for next week but it will be incredibly tough.”
It was a sentiment echoed by Jamison Gibson-Park, who was man of the match at the weekend and who believes Scotland are capable of causing an upset.
The Tartan Army have not beaten Ireland since 2017 when they inflicted defeat on the side then-coached by Joe Schmidt.
The scrum-half said: “That’s the case for a lot of teams now. We’ve kind of been near enough to the top of the rankings for a while.
“I know myself that if I’m coming up against a quality side you want to put your best performance out there. Next week will be no different.”
Scotland view themselves as potential champions and the Leinster star agreed: “One hundred per cent. They’re a classy side.
“They’re playing good footie and they’re stacked full of really good individuals, so it will be a tough challenge. I know it’s been a long time since they won but there’s no reason they can’t.
“But what a place to go and what an opportunity for us to go there and have a crack at them.”
