having captained the Irish team at under-18 and under-20 levels. Longevity blessed all of them and they will depart with an astonishing combined service of 43 years of international rugby and a ...

WHILE I am not a huge rugby fan ... rounds still to play, Ireland remain the favourites to win the Grand Slam and are hoping to make history by becoming the first team to win three straight ...

Irish rugby teams, over the last two decades, have enjoyed unprecedented success in club competitions and on the international arena. Ulster, Munster and Leinster won seven Champions Cup titles ...

There was no little gloom and doom at the end of Ireland’s Six Nations campaign with, as Gordon D’Arcy notes, plenty of talk about the team now being in “a state of chaos”. But he argues ...