Predictions in descending order of expectations.
1. Rain kills result.
2. Pakistan collapse as they did against SL last time they played a Test.
3. Pakistan manage to skittle them under 150-170 and we scrape a win.
Us losing to Ireland is the sort of thing we're good at doing, and an Irish win would mean so much more to their country than win for us. It may even help growth for the game/sponsorship for a country that won't be able to host another Test for a year. And maybe not even then.
For those reasons alone I prefer an Irish win.
Now against England, I hope by some miracle we manage to win at least one Test.