Andy Gray
BBC Sport NI

It may only be seven points apiece but this has been a belter of a half of rugby.

Ireland have been superb, but will they come to rue those missed opportunities?

More of the same please in the second half.

Ireland get within five but Pauline Barrat forces a knock on from Aoife Dalton to end a breathless and thoroughly entertaining first 40.

Probably before the game, Scott Bemand would have taken this and they have been really good but three disallowed tries will leave a sour taste.

Ireland win a turnover on the halfway line into the final minute of the first half.

It's captain Erin King who wins it and Dannah O'Brien puts the ball up to the 22 for one last chance in the opening stanza.

Anna Caplice
Former Ireland international on BBC iPlayer

Aoife Wafer is a player who takes off with the ball and then has that change of pace to accelerate through the contact.

Two minutes until the break and we've just seen some stats. Aoife Wafer has made 72 metres from 12 carries. An incredible and monstrous first half display from her.

Ireland make it into the French 22 but Robyn O'Connor is bundled into touch and France clear to the halfway line.

Some brilliant Irish defence as Teani Feleu is held up and Ireland win a scrum in French territory.

Yes she did. Another try is disallowed by the TMO and Ireland leave another score out there. Will this come back to haunt them?

Not again! Did Emily Lane knock on at the crucial moment?

France concede another penalty at ruck time and get what must be a final warning before another yellow card.

Dannah O'Brien puts in the corner. Big lineout coming up...

A bit of kick tennis between Dannah O'Brien and Pauline Barrat results in an Irish lineout just inside French territory.

However, it is a loose one and France kick in behind but too much on it and it goes dead.

A truly extraordinary effort from Clermont's own Anais Grando to get under the ball and deny Fiona Tuite.

The Irish second rows made serious ground with Dorothy Wall busting through and finding her partner in the engine room who got over the line despite Carla Arbez's tackle. However, the French winger contorts her body to stop the ball hitting the grass.

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Fiona Tuite is over the line but has she got it down?

Ireland win the lineout but, as Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald gets the ball back in a training ground move, she is bundled into touch.

France's ball carriers are absolutely savage and are making ground on every carry. However, a textbook turnover from Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald wins the visitors a turnover.

Andy Gray
BBC Sport NI

That was held up, no? It looked like Aoife Wafer got her arm under the ball there.

Ireland didn't seem to complain too much and they are a lot closer to the action than I am, but I'm not sure about that one.

Anna Caplice
Former Ireland international on BBC iPlayer

France were always going to go for that maul, and it was quite carelessly defended by Ireland.