Ireland centre Garry Ringrose warned the rest of the world that there is more to come from Ireland after beating the world champions.
“It wasn’t pretty, it was tight at the end but we will take it,” he said. “It was great to be playing our first ever home game as the world’s number one rated team and matches don’t come any bigger than against the reigning world champions.
“There is loads for us to work on, they challenged us massively at times but that’s South Africa for you, we are very happy with that. We can get so much better, there are many areas we can evolve and the work starts again...