When Ireland finished stuttering their way to victory in Rome on Saturday, a sense of gloom abounded as supporters and media ...

This time last year a putative Lions Test team would have amounted to Ireland and a few of The Rest, a prognosis designed to ...

Ireland's Grand Slam dreams are over, blown to smithereens by a ruthless and emphatic France, who now look destined to win the Guinness Six Nations title. Not even the loss of Antoine Dupont on 26 ...

Hugo Keenan, Bundee Aki and Finlay Bealham also come back into the starting team, 12 of whom started the 38-17 win away to France last year. While Ireland have won three games from three this year ...

Sculpted entirely from high-grade, Greek-god muscle, Bundee Aki's impossibly chiselled torso spasms, fists pummelling the air in rhythm with his primal scream, man as an involuntary cocktail of ...

This meant that Ireland were reduced to 14 men for only 20 minutes, with the powerful Bundee Aki later replacing him and helping the visitors to claim victory. In the days that followed ...

Easterby has followed the Andy Farrell mantra of a more conservative bench split (6:2), with Bundee Aki, Hugo Keenan and Finlay Bealham joining captain Doris in a return to the starting XV.

Prop Finlay Bealham and fullback Hugo Keenan, rested last time out when Ireland scraped past Wales, are back while Bundee Aki starts as expected alongside Robbie Henshaw in the centre after making ...

their champion side have ridden the rigours of the campaign better than any other – aided though they were by the introduction of the 20-minute red card and the arrival of a fresh Bundee Aki to ...

Prop Finlay Bealham and fullback Hugo Keenan, rested last time out when Ireland scraped past Wales, are back while Bundee Aki starts as expected alongside Robbie Henshaw in the centre after making ...