■By TOM BANKS

Opening salvo: Tom Stephenson gets the first try

CLINICAL London Irish blasted seven tries past Doncaster Knights to reward a bumper St Patrick’s party crowd at the Madejski Stadium.
Irish are now eight points clear of seconplaced Ealing in the race for the Championship, with four games remaining.
Doncaster scored two tries with Ollie Stedman getting his seventh of the season at the death.
“The score got away from us a bit”, Stedman said. “We showed some encouraging rugby at times and left a couple of tries on the pitch so the score line flat...