Dan Sheehan says Ireland will “knuckle down to basics” when they continue their Guinness Six Nations title quest against Wales in Cardiff on Saturday. Ireland are red-hot favourites to pile further ...

Easterby is leading Ireland on an interim basis as Andy Farrell prepares for the British and Irish Lions tour.

Dan Sheehan has been named captain of a much-changed Ireland team for Saturday’s Guinness Six Nations clash with Wales in Cardiff. With fellow hooker Ronan Kelleher ruled out by a neck injury and ...

The Portlaoise props, Orlaith Costigan and Kate Scully carried hard at the heart of the Ravens. Captain Ciara Cuddy was ...

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Rugby has an attendance problem. We have plenty of critics, excuses, peeves, whines, and nostalgia. We need bums in seats, full price tickets bought and sold, a full roar of a crowd glued to the ...

It was another busy weekend for the rugby sides of the south-east, with critical wins for Wexford Wanderers and Gorey on ...

With back-to-back World Cup wins in 2019 and 2023, South Africa’s dominance in world rugby is no accident. The country breeds the toughest players in the sport, and England’s 2003 Rugby World ...

CAPE TOWN – South African rugby will call in outside advisers to review its finances as it presses on with plans to sell a stake in the World Cup-winning Springboks to a private equity partner ...

The stakes will be particularly high when the Stormers host the Bulls in the north-south derby at DHL Stadium this Saturday.

Of course, South-East Nigeria, no doubt, has suffered historical marginalisation from the Nigerian state since after the civil war days when the then military dictator General Yakubu Gowon ...

Those victories include a title-clinching 17-13 success in Dublin last year, plus pool-stage wins at the 2019 and 2023 Rugby World Cups ... Ireland team: H Keenan (Leinster); M Hansen (Connacht ...