LEINSTER BACKS COACH Felipe Contepomi expects to see pride on show from the Pumas in Dublin this Saturday (kick-off 18.30). But he is otherwise uncertain about what his compatriots will be able to prove. Argentina have famously proven to be a bogey team for Ireland at World Cups, knocking them out in 2015 and also…
HAVING COME TO rugby from basketball, the lineout was always likely to be Aoife McDermott’s favourite part of the game. Click Here: Marcos Llorente Jersey Sale There is a degree of transferrable skill at play – catching overhead, the footwork, the structured movement to create space, the fast-paced nature of the strategy. McDermott starts in…
PADDY JACKSON WILL be in action against an Irish province for the first time tomorrow night since his move to France after being named in the Perpignan team to take on Connacht in the European Challenge Cup. The sides meet in a clash in Pool 3 at the Stade Aimé Giral [KO 7pm] in a…
FRESH FROM TRAINING with Joe Schmidt’s Ireland for the first time, Tom Farrell is keen to continue his rise through the ranks by helping Connacht to victory against the Southern Kings in South Africa tomorrow afternoon [KO 1pm Irish time, eir Sport]. Farrell was called into Carton House to assist in Ireland’s preparation to face…
Ireland international Iain Henderson. Source: Inpho/Billy Stickland ULSTER HAVE BEEN boosted by the return of Iain Henderson and Will Addison for tomorrow’s Heineken European Champions Cup away game against Scarlets (7.45pm, live on BT Sport). The pair haven’t featured for the province since Ireland’s November Tests but are named in the side along with international…
EXETER CHIEFS ENDED Saracens’ 22-match unbeaten run win a 31-13 bonus-point victory to replace the champions at the top of the Premiership and Leicester Tigers halted their eight-match losing streak. Sarries had not been beaten since Leinster dumped them out of last season’s Champions Cup at the quarter-final stage in April, but they finally came…
WHAT WAS YOUR most memorable Irish sporting moment from the past year? In one annual survey, Johnny Sexton’s winning drop goal in the Six Nations clash against France in February has come out on top. Johnny Sexton kicks the winning drop goal in Paris. Source: James Crombie/INPHO The score received 31% of the vote in…
KYLE MCCALL WILL seek the advice of a surgeon this week as he faces another extended period on the sidelines after sustaining a ‘significant’ hamstring injury against Leinster last weekend. The Ulster prop, only just back from a three-month lay-off, suffered the injury during the second half of the northern province’s heavy Pro14 defeat at…
TEDDY THOMAS CAME off injured for Racing 92 in their Top 14 win over Toulon just days ahead of France’s Six Nations squad being announced and his side’s crucial Champions Cup trip to face Ulster next weekend. Wing Thomas had been out for five weeks due to a thigh injury suffered during the November internationals. He…
JAMES LOWE BOUNCED into the press room after training on a wet, dirty day at the RDS. ‘Phew! Some craic out there,” he says with a fresh dry t-shirt that is at odds with the freezing air within the old walls. He’s so close to his first competitive rugby of 2019 he can taste it. The…