The world's greatest athletes compete for the world's greatest prizes and the story is no different at Aintree ...

Connacht and Munster welcome back Irish internationals for the United Rugby Championship interprovincial showdown at MacHale ...

In a change of plans, interim Ireland head coach Simon Easterby, who had been announced as the lead for the summer tour of ...

Aoife Wafer is rugby's one-woman band. Her experience of starring all across the backline before turning powerhouse back-row is an extraordinary rugby bonus not least in women's rugby which prizes ...

Costigan featured in the Paris Olympics for Ireland Rugby Sevens Amee-Leigh Costigan will captain Ireland in their Women's Six Nations opener against France at the Kingspan Stadium. Costigan ...

Wales boast more players than Ireland in the stats-based Six Nations team of the tournament, it has been revealed. The Opta Index scored individual performances throughout the tournament based on ...

After an exciting Triple Crown victory, history was still on the cards for Ireland heading into the penultimate round. But it has been a disappointing finish to the Six Nations since then for ...

When the Springboks head on their year-end tour to Europe in November, it’s clear that their toughest challenge will not come from Ireland but rather from France. The Irish, despite their recent ...

THE Irish rugby team gathered in Rome for a black tie gala to mark the end of the Six Nations - before continuing the party in Dublin. While it overall felt like an underwhelming tournament from ...

Finlay Bealham crept up behind Peter O’Mahony and asked for a hug before being shooed away with a playfully exasperated “I’m not talking to ya”. Bundee Aki was next in what became a trope ...

A cousin of mine in Ireland — whom I won’t identify, given the 50/50 chance they end up reading this — texted me recently to say that for the first time, they felt actively frightened of ...

THE Fields of Athenry echoed around the emptying Stadio Olimpico as Ireland players did a lap of honour ten minutes after the final whistle. No one was singing it ten minutes earlier as the only ...