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Five talking points from round four of Six Nations

'Irresistible' try tops week four's best Six Nations moments

Alastair Telfer
BBC Sport journalist

stunned Ireland in Dublin to become Six Nations title favourites, Scotland held off a late Wales comeback, and England comfortably saw off Italy to keep their title chances alive.

Here's our round-up of the big talking points from the fourth round of fixtures in the 2025 championship.

Dupont cruciate knee injury deemed unintentional

Right decision made in 'horrible' Dupont injury citing

delivered one of their greatest Six Nations performances to thrash holders Ireland 42-27 in Dublin.

But rather than experiencing pure euphoria after a near-perfect performance, the French camp vented their anger after their talisman Antoine Dupont ruptured cruciate ligaments in his knee.

The 28-year-old scrum-half was forced off in the first half after Ireland lock Tadhg Beirne fell on to his leg at a ruck.

head coach Fabien Galthie referred Ireland pair Beirne and Andrew Porter to the citing commissioner for possible retrospective punishment, which was later dismissed.

"There was zero malice in it," former Ireland wing Simon Zebo, a former Munster team-mate of Beirne, told BBC's Six Nations Rugby Special.

"Tadhg is a clean player and wouldn't wish any bad intent on anyone. The only thing is, it is not a great image.

"There is a lot of power coming into that ruck and it looks worse than it is. No-one wants to see him [Dupont] out of the game as he is the best player in the world."

Dupont, who was replaced by Maxime Lucu, provided seven assists and scored two tries before his tournament was cut short.

Victory over Scotland at Stade de will likely secure a first title in three years, with arguably the best player in the world now potentially having to lift the trophy in a tracksuit.

Dominant win to end Ireland's grand slam hopes

's physicality ends Ireland's Grand Slam dream

A 'scarring loss' for Ireland as take control of the Six Nations

Ireland's goal this campaign was to become the first side in Six Nations history to win three successive outright titles.

Victories over England, Scotland and Wales secured the Triple Crown, and put interim Ireland head coach Simon Easterby two games from a Grand Slam.

But a ruthless scored five tries in a clinical display to outclass Ireland on their own patch.

Their tally of 26 tries after four matches is just three shy of the overall championship record set by England in 2001.

Following a surprise defeat by England in round two, Galthie has opted for a 7-1 bench spilt, which helped inflict an 11-try hammering of Italy.

Ireland - like Italy in Rome - struggled once Galthie unloaded this powerful bench early in the second half, resulting in the most points the French have ever scored in Dublin.

"I have never seen an Irish pack dominated so much," former Wales back Jonathan Davies told BBC's Six Nations Rugby Special.

"Ireland have been very good and competed with everyone in the world, especially up front. The bench came on and blasted them."

even ended up with flanker Oscar Jegou playing at centre for a large chunk of the second half after Pierre-Louis Barassi went off injured.

The 21-year-old impressed out of position and put in a crunching covering crunching hit on Ireland fly-half Sam Prendergast to show incredible versatility.