Johnny Sexton believes that the pressure will be shared out amongst the competing nations ahead of Saturday’s Guinness 6 Nations finale.
Ireland remain in with a shout to land the trophy despite losing their opening game of the championship, getting beaten by England in Dublin.
Joe Schmidt’s side travel to Cardiff for their final game of this year’s campaign with victory in mind, aiming to prevent the home side from securing the Grand Slam.
Victory for Ireland would put the onus on England to win their final game, which takes place after the Ireland game in Wales.
"The expectation on Wales will be huge to secure the Grand Slam, they don’t come along too often," said Sexton.
"But we will be under pressure as well. We want to finish on high, we want to win a championship as well.
"We still have a shout and we know if we can get a result and a good performance, then the pressure will be on England.
"And if the pressure is on them, then you never know what might happen."
Ireland have rarely hit top form during this year’s campaign and struggled at times to dominate in Scotland, while also losing that opening encounter.
However, the Ireland out-half believes that the team turned the corner last weekend with an impressive victory over France, which should set them up to follow up with another strong finishing performance in Wales.
"It was good to turn the corner, performance-wise. But there are still parts of the game that we will need to improve on this weekend.
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"It is the biggest challenge to date and one that we are looking forward to.
"They have won four on the bounce and they are playing at home and have a lot of momentum as well.
"We know we have to go up another level and I think there is, there is another bit in us."
On reflection, Sexton feels that the under-par performances earlier in the championship were just down to some individual errors adding up to affect the overall game-plan.
"There was nothing majorly broken in the first couple [of games], there was just some uncharacteristic errors by individuals or breakdowns with a couple of things.
"That just all adds up and if everyone makes a couple of mistakes and you have 30 errors, then you are in a bit of trouble.
"We knew we weren’t too far away from clicking and that proved to be the case."
