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

Playing for his future in Irish rugby. He is one of many former internationals who ... With Porter and Healy in Ireland camp, Paddy McCarthy, Michael Milne, and Ireland u.20 loosehead Alex Usanov all ...

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

The Irish president Michael D Higgins is being presented to the players ahead ... 8 Caelan Doris (capt.); 9 Jamison Gibson-Park, 10 Sam Prendergast; 11 James Lowe, 12 Bundee Aki, 13 Robbie Henshaw, 14 ...

Manchester United's home of 115 years has had a life of its own, becoming a leading character in the story of the club and ...

Graphic by Irish Independent We are now halfway through the world cup cycle with a Lions tour and an Irish development tour to Georgia and Portugal on the short term horizon. With about 15 Irish ...

Scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park ... Ireland. Michael Steele/Getty Images Regan: It feels cruel to kick a team when they're down, especially when the problems with Welsh rugby go so much deeper ...

Tributes have been paid to British & Irish Lions and England centre Colin McFadyean, who has died at the age of 82. McFadyean ...

Ireland 22; Italy 17 A third place finish at the end of the day was a disappointment but in the cold light of dawn, maybe we ...

Hello and welcome to the Irish Times Rugby blog on the final weekend of the Six Nations Championship. John O’Sullivan here, in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, where Italy host an Ireland team looking for ...