Irish pile more misery on Welsh
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Alex Lewington scored a hat-trick as London Irish thrashed Welsh 50-12, ensuring the hosts' miserable season continued with a 16th Aviva Premiership defeat on the bounce.
The result emphasised the gulf between Welsh and all the other sides in the Premiership as they could not make a game of it against the side placed immediately above them.
Irish led 38-7 at half-time before taking off a number of key players to allow the opposition to make a better fist of it in the second half.
This was probably Welsh's last chance of adding to their solitary point, for their remaining six league m…