Andy Farrell insists Ireland have only just begun after claiming the first trophy of his reign in front of a celebrating Aviva Stadium crowd.
Farrell, who succeeded Joe Schmidt after a dispiriting World Cup for Ireland, has gradually moulded the team to his liking and his reward is a first Triple Crown for the men in green since 2018 after four wins from five in the Six Nations championship.
A Six Nations title could yet be added to the IRFU trophy room tonight - England have to beat or draw with France for that to happen - but the 46-year-old has his squad in a good place as he begins to plan for the three-Test tour of New Zealand in July, which will be Ireland's next Test outings.
"I’m absolutely delighted for the players and all who have been involved for eight weeks and the staff," said Farrell.
"We’re a together group. We’d like to be in control going for a Grand Slam but after the French game we had a job to do.
"But three bonus points in three games says a lot about this group.
"Regarding the rugby, we’ve only just started. There’s plenty to work on. We are tight, we are good people and that helps growing when you have that kind of group.
"We have a big tour and hopefully we will take a big squad and grow the depth of our squad because we will have a lot of games out there and we will need that. But there’s a lot of rugby to be played before then.
"We’ll dust ourselves down and get together in the dressing-room. We’ll have a quiet beer. It’s the first time we’re allowed to have a dinner, so we’ll have a dinner together and see how it goes."
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