I was just skimming over the game again, and a couple things like that really stood out.
For one, almost all of them had great body position when they went into contact. None of them were too upright, they kept their base (hips) under them, and chopped their legs. Even Toner --
even Toner.
Keet was a lot more effective than many might have realized. He was very busy and physical at the rucks. Around the 14th minute, he cleans Slimani a meter out of a ruck on his own. About five minutes after that, Henshaw is carrying and gets hit by Pape and Bastareaud; Earls flies into that ruck and takes Pape about a meter past Henshaw, giving him plenty of space to present the ball.
Trevor Hogan is also imploring people to go back and watch Henshaw in that fifteen-minute period from around when O'Connell gets hurt and then into the second half around Kearney's try. A lot of it isn't flashy work, but he's comparing it to as being as influential a performance as O'Driscoll's star performance in Paris when he was young. When Ireland are down to 14 (no POC), Henshaw ups his workrate and gets the turnover from Chouly. That secures the rest of the first half for Ireland. In the second half, a lot of his work leads up to Kearney's try; he steps Bastareaud at one point to make a break, and then beat two more French defenders to get the ball out wide to Bowe, which led to the lineout. Off the lineout he took an against-the-grain line to carry the ball over the gain line, and it's off that they get the scrum. Off that scrum, it's his quick inside pass to Bowe in a backs play that sets up the phases leading to Kearney's try, and in the middle of that he also gets a leech onto O'Brien to get him over the gain line.
And I thought I must have hallucinated it, but nope -- at 46:50, Heaslip clears three French forwards off a ruck on his own, toppling them all over a la SOB in the 6N, and that leads to a turnover. It wasn't quite as explosive as O'Brien's, but it was good enough.