By BRENDAN GALLAGHER

IRELAND, with a performance of growing authority and excellence, dismissed South Africa from their presence to get their autumn campaign off to a spectacular start.
South Africa arrived in Dublin in decent nick off the back of a draw with Australia and a narrow defeat against New Zealand in their last two Rugby Championship matches. They had quiet hopes of catching the Irish unawares but finished a distant second.
Before the game their coach Allister Coetzee had ventured the view that Ireland were Europe’s All Blacks and you wondered briefly if he was, perhaps, ...