Si Carine Haddadou a participé à Popstars avant la Star Academy, c’est dans la deuxième émission présentée par Nikos Aliagas qu’elle avait été révélée au grand public, en 2001. Très vite, elle s’était démarquée grâce à sa voix rauque et à sa personnalité sympathique. Depuis, la belle blonde de 41 ans est toujours chanteuse si…
Ryan Bailey reports from the Aviva Stadium Click Here: Robert Lewandowski Jersey Sale WHAT OF THE majesty, and box-office brilliance, of James Lowe, Leinster’s Kiwi magician? Was this his best performance in a blue shirt, an all-action display embellished by two muscular tries and a whole lot more? In full flow, he is a joy…
DANNY CIPRIANI’S ENGLAND exile continued on Thursday as he was left out of Eddie Jones’s squad for the November internationals at Twickenham. The fly-half has been in fine form for Gloucester this season but that was not enough to persuade Jones to include him in a 36-man squad for next month’s home Tests against South…
Tito Tebaldi celebrates in the RDS. Source: James Crombie/INPHO IT’S FITTING THAT Leinster go into today’s Pro14 meeting with Benetton (kick-off 3pm, eir Sport) on the back of defeat. Because it serves the eastern province a timely reminder that the Italians inflicted the lowest point of last season’s incredibly successful campaign. The hosts in Stade…
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…