Ireland

Connacht make Heineken Cup for the first time

  • May 24, 2011

Connacht Rugby will taste Heineken Cup action for the first time next season – courtesy of Leinster winning their second Heineken Cup crown with a sensational comeback that clinched a…

Brian O’Driscoll’s caught cold in an interview

  • May 17, 2011

BRIAN O’DRISCOLL is one of rugby’s more articulate players, but after Ireland’s 21-11 defeat by New Zealand in Wellington in 2008 he wasn’t quite as comfortable speaking to the media.…

  • May 17, 2011

I’d encourage anyone who’s a late starter in rugby to believe they can make it. I didn’t pick up a rugby ball regularly until my mid-teens as I was more…

  • April 26, 2011

Martin johnson had warned about premature talk of a Six Nations Grand Slam. The England manager knew only too well that playing Ireland in Dublin in the final round would…

mike ross ireland

  • March 24, 2011

Leinster’s Mike Ross is the latest international to commit his future to playing in Ireland. The prop has penned a deal to keep him firmly rooted until the end of…

  • March 22, 2011

Keith Earls endures a personal nightmare every other weekend. He hates flying. The big planes that transport Ireland are manageable, but the small, cramped ones that take Munster to various…

  • March 21, 2011

The Ireland fly-half turns off his poker face to chat to Bea Asprey… RUGBY WORLD: Who’s your room-mate in the Ireland camp? Jonathan Sexton: Eoin Reddan, a good friend from…

Ireland 24 England 8 – the video highlights

  • March 20, 2011

Ireland (14) 24 Tries: Bowe, O’Driscoll Con: Sexton Pens: Sexton 4 England (3) 8 Tries: Thompson Pens: Flood Click here to watch the highlights – UK only Ireland: Earls; Bowe, B O’Driscoll, D’Arcy,…