FRONT FOOT: Ireland interim head coach Simon Easterby and Andrew Porter during an Ireland rugby captain's run at the Aviva Stadium on Friday. Pic: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile The priority has been ...

Johnathan Ball, aged three, and Tim Parry ... But it has been criticised for its ‘anti-republican’ nature. Ireland’s rugby team are one of the few that represent both the Republic and ...

It wasn’t just beating Scotland, Wales and England ... I’m a rugby man but also a Tyrone man and what the county team has achieved winning four All-Ireland championships just makes me so ...

SIMON EASTERBY FACTFILE DOB: 21/7/1975 - aged 49 Why is he in the News: Simon Easterby is stand-in Ireland rugby coach for the 2025 Six Nations while Andy Farrell is on Lions sabbatical Place of ...

Wales will be looking to make massive improvements as they start preparing for the rest of the tournament: Italy vs Wales (Stadio Olimpico) 8th February Wales vs Ireland (Millennium Stadium ...

France and Wales ... ball in the France half. Marchand with a good throw. The maul gets rolling, rumbles over the line and it is indeed Julien Marchand who dots down at the back. Simple game, rugby ...

France and Wales kicked off the Six Nations under the Friday night lights in Paris and another thrilling edition of rugby’s greatest annual championship begun with Les Bleus routing their ...

Dupont, who skipped last year's championship to prepare for the Olympic Rugby Sevens tournament which France won, delivered a hat trick of assists as Les Bleus handed Wales their 13th consecutive ...

Ex-Wales rugby star Gavin Henson has shared a hair-raising tale of sailing his yacht from Cardiff to Swansea following a night out, an adventure that nearly ended in disaster. The 33-cap ...

The aspiring young players at Cowbridge Rugby ... years with Ireland’s forwards and on their defence and spends long periods in Dublin as a result, his family home remains in Wales.

Kevin Lynch is a London-born, Dublin-based writer and journalist. The author of Steve Jobs: A Biographic Portrait, Kevin is a regular feature writer for a number of tech sites and the former ...

Antoine Dupont lived up to expectations as the mercurial scrumhalf made his Six Nations comeback in style to lead France to a 43-0 crushing of Wales in ... for the Olympic Rugby Sevens tournament ...