Irish rugby is in a strange place at the moment. The national side has fallen off where it was a couple of years ago, ...

Standing at 6’4” and weighing 119kg, McGuire has played club rugby for UCD RFC in the All-Ireland-League, while studying mechanical engineering. On the signings, Ulster Rugby’s General ...

A 53-year-old British man plowed his minivan into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans who had been celebrating the city team’s ...

Professor Chris Brookes (universally known as “Doc”), chairman of Wigan Warriors, agreed the symbolism was striking. “The two ...

The 31-year-old, who is hoping to be capped for the first time in Ireland's summer tour of Georgia and Portugal, is joined on the shortlist by Ireland and Lions duo Jamison Gibson-Park and Tadhg ...

First announced in 2023, the removal of one break week is to assist with the alignment of the new global rugby calendar ... collide with Ireland at home on February 21 and finish with away ...

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The season is far from over, and it may well end up with an Irish team lifting a trophy but there is no doubt that there has been a worrying fall-off this season in Irish rugby, across a number of ...

That has served them immeasurably well in their preparations for this 18th and final round of the regular season, when only a victory will ensure a top-eight finish and knockout URC rugby beyond ...

Two sides of the same Irish rugby coin within a week – heart-warming for those on the right side of imminent immortality; heart-breaking for the others who history will soon forget. At a house ...

Former World Rugby sevens player of the year Terry Kennedy says the decision to cut the Ireland men's sevens team at the end of the 2024-25 season is "nothing short of a disgrace". On Wednesday ...

Kennedy won the World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year in 2022 Former World Rugby sevens player of the year Terry Kennedy says the decision to cut the Ireland men's sevens team at the end of the ...