IRELAND ARE IN Cardiff and have stretched their legs out before tomorrow enormous Six Nations meeting with Wales. While the weather forecast is promising dry conditions for tomorrow’s 14.30 kick-off, today’s Captain’s Run took place in dreary conditions in the Millennium Stadium. Sexton gets his side’s rhythm going Source: Billy Stickland/INPHO Simon Zebo getting a…
HBO paid tribute to the “McMahon Crime Family” (at the WWE Twitter account’s request) in a tweet commemorating The Sopranos’ twentieth anniversary. The network posted to Twitter noting that they were “handing out Soprano nicknames” in celebration of the show’s anniversary, which led to WWE replying. That earned Vince the title of capo in his…
Updated at 16.46 ROCKWELL BEAT ARDSCOIL Rís 23-13 to lift the Munster Schools Senior Cup at Thomond Park today, denying their Limerick opponents a first-ever title win in the process. It’s the Tipperary-based school’s 26th cup success and the first time since 2012 that they have triumphed in the competition. A cagey opening left the score…
LEINSTER HAVE ADDED Sean O’Brien and Cian Healy to their Champions Cup squad ahead of the quarter-final against Bath at the Aviva Stadium on 4 April. All remaining clubs in the knock-out stages of the leading European club competition and the second-tier Challenge Cup had the opportunity this week to nominate up to three players for…
LEINSTER HEAD COACH Matt O’Connor has picked former rugby league star Ben Te’o at outside centre for his side’s Champions Cup quarter-final against Bath at the Aviva Stadium tomorrow [KO 15.15]. Te’o will wear Leinster’s 13 shirt tomorrow. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO Te’o has been partnered with Ian Madigan in the Leinster midfield for the first…
A CLINICAL SECOND half of running rugby saw Munster move a step closer to a home semi-final after a 34-3 bonus point with over Edinburgh at Murrayfield. After a half an hour you wouldn’t have guessed the final scoreline as the game was tied at 3-3 and both sides were struggling to execute in attack….
Source: gorpitsen junior/YouTube THOSE EXPECTING A citing against Toulon’s Jocelino Suta for the above choke hold on Leinster’s Richardt Strauss during Sunday’s Champions Cup semi-final are still waiting, although the timeframe in which citings are normally made has still not elapsed. Matt O’Connor’s men scored three points from the penalty awarded by referee Wayne Barnes…
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SEVEN IRISH BASED players have played their way onto the Guinness Pro12 Dream Team for the 2014/15 season but, perhaps unsurprisingly, no Leinster player makes the grade. Ulster’s Rory Best, Franco van der Merwe and Craig Gilroy are all included, the latter’s 11 tries the most of any player in this year’s competition. Gilroy is joined…
YOU’D LIKE TO think a professional athlete’s post-match diet would consist of a high-carbohydrate meal consisting of all the right foods but that’s clearly not the case, in either football or rugby. In a new video ahead of Ireland’s make-or-break Euro 2016 Qualifier against Scotland, Seamus Coleman and rugby star Robbie Heshaw sat down for…