Rob Kearney could not quite believe what had happened just moments before he spoke to the BBC's Sonja McLaughlan on Saturday evening.
Minutes earlier, Johnny Sexton had launched a 42 minute drop goal which took Ireland from the brink of defeat to the ecstasy of victory.
"It's quite incredible really. We probably got out of jail a little bit," said Kearney before using a particularly Irish term to describe Sexton's nerve.
To build that amount of phases, to keep the ball - the conditions are awful - and then the stones on Johnny at the end was incredible.
As he watched the play unfold, Kearney thought the ball did not have enough to make it over the bar.
"I thought it was a little short. It went in slow motion and it just crept over.
"We knew it was the last play. He ran off celebrating and we all went along. It was unbelievably special."
It's massive from him. He puts a huge amount of work in. He would have been feeling poorly over missing that penalty. It's a sign of a real champion to step up and go again - that's what he is.
Kearney also admitted that he had been caught out for the Teddy Thomas try which looked like it had won the game for France.
