Amlin Challenge Cup Final 17/5/2013 Leinster vs Stade Francais Paris - Leinster's Jamie Heaslip celebrates(Image: ©INPHO/James Crombie) Challenge Cup: Sunday (1pm ...

I sat down to watch La Rochelle play in their Top 14 home clash against Toulon on Sunday for a number of reasons. The first is obvious. I’ve followed with admiration how a young boy from PBC has ...

Clayton McMillan and Mike Prendergast read the riot act to the Munster squad following capitulation to Ulster last time out. If there was a temptation to hide behind the fact Tadhg Beirne, Jack ...

Former Italy fly-half Ian McKinley joins Gavin Andrews and Conor Murray on the latest episode of BBC Sport NI's Ireland Rugby Social. A former Ireland under-20 international who came through the ...

It’s time to start planning for the return of Ronan O’Gara to Irish rugby. The Munster and Ireland legend has so far conducted his glittering, 13-year coaching career offshore, with stints as an ...

Ulster Rugby take on the Free State Cheetahs of Bloemfontein in Amsterdam in their third European Challenge Cup match of the season on Sunday. The Cheetahs play their third match of the season, having ...

Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay has described the lyrics to Flower of Scotland as “maximum Scottish cringe” and called on the country ...

Wales suffered a miserable past year on the international stage, but can 2026 bring some brighter moments? Men's head coach Steve Tandy takes on his first Six Nations campaign in charge, while Sean ...

It was a game of two halves – the first of which Leinster edged 19-17, the second of which they won 33-0 – in a URC interprovincial clash that also required two referees after Andrew Brace was ...

LEINSTER meet Connacht in a mouth-watering all-Irish clash in the United Rugby Championship this afternoon. Leo Cullen’s men are in buoyant mood having outlasted Munster last weekend for their sixth ...

Jamie Heaslip can be forgiven for thinking he should have waited. Back in 2019, he offered up a moment of Irish rugby Twitter folklore, asking his followers if he should start a podcast. The resulting ...

An impressive Ulster won out comfortably against Irish rivals Munster in Belfast to secure a sixth United Rugby Championship win in eight games so far this season. The Ulstermen had won one and lost ...