Hello and welcome to the Irish Times Rugby blog on the final weekend of the Six Nations Championship. John O’Sullivan here, ...

Ireland have won every other contest apart from that, a winning streak in this fixture of 15 matches across 11 years. They ...

Ireland secured the win they needed against Italy to keep their faint Six Nations title hopes alive, with Dan Sheehan scoring ...

The visitors weren’t hugely convincing but won and scored the four tries they needed to at least force England or France to ...

Hooker Dan Sheehan scored a hat-trick of tries as champions Ireland laboured to a 22-17 bonus-point victory over hosts Italy on Saturday to move top of the Six Nations table and retain a chance of ...

Super Saturday kicks off at the Stadio Olimpico with Ireland needing a big win to keep their faint hopes of an historic Six ...

Ireland travel to Italy with the slimmest of chances to secure a third Six Nations title in a row. To achieve that goal they ...

Ireland put in a mixed performance but got there in the end, posting a bonus-point win. But there was periods that were not ...

I didn’t go out to try to injure ... IRELAND (possible v Italy): Hugo Keenan (Leinster); Mack Hansen (Connacht), Garry Ringrose (Leinster), Robbie Henshaw (Leinster), James Lowe (Leinster ...

Super Saturday kicks off at the Stadio Olimpico with Ireland needing a big win to keep their faint hopes of an historic Six ...

IRELAND look to put themselves in a position to win a THIRD Six Nations title in a row in Rome. The Italians would take a ...

Elsewhere for Ireland, centre Garry Ringrose is back after suspension while wings James Lowe and Mack Hansen ... nod over Ross Vintcent - one of Italy's try-scorers at Twickenham - while the ...