With six matches left, there are play-off positions and European spots at stake Juarno Augustus is making a timely return to action for Ulster. Photo: Sportsfile If you’ve been following the provinces on social media this week, you’ll have spotted plenty of Ireland’s Six Nations stars back in training. Those who started against Scotland will … Read more
A Leinster rugby player has appeared in court accused of assaulting a woman at a popular Dublin nightclub. Alan Spicer (21) of Swords Road, Malahide, Dublin, was charged with assault causing harm to the named woman at Copper Face Jacks, Jackson Court Hotel, Harcourt Street, on March 1st last. The secondrow, who has represented Ireland … Read more
Retired rugby star Ian Madigan tells Pat McCarry how he’s adapting to fatherhood, life after sport and why he’s subjecting himself to a comedy roast Ian Madigan has an emotional reaction after 2015 Rugby World Cup game against France. Photo: Matt Browne/Sportsfile Ian Madigan is looking remarkably fresh for a man with a one-year-old, a … Read more
Ireland fullback Hugo Keenan could be back in the Leinster squad as early as this week for their United Rugby Championship (URC) match against Glasgow on Saturday in Scotstoun Stadium (kick-off 5.30pm). Keenan (broken thumb), along with prop Andrew Porter (calf) and flanker Ryan Baird (leg fracture), missed the Six Nations championship and Ireland’s Triple … Read more
Ronan O’Gara: Jack Crowley has a serious body of work ahead of him. He knows that Irish Examiner Source link
The Apres Match comic is taking on his first live solo show Risteárd Cooper photographed near where he grew up in Ranelagh, Dublin. Photo: Frank McGrath The image of Risteárd Cooper in a crazy wig making the nation heave with laughter on RTÉ’s Apres Match in the late 1990s is so deeply ingrained in my … Read more
Jacob Stockdale is his own toughest critic. It’s been that way since his youth, and it’s worth recounting a story from his first year on the Ireland Under-20 squad to illustrate the point. Sitting in the Lansdowne pavilion in January 2015, the 18-year-old Lurgan-born wing opened a folder to reveal handwritten notes alongside numbers on … Read more
Exclusive | One of rugby’s hottest young prospects has turned down his native South Africa in favour of Ireland and Leinster Ireland U-20 players, from left, Christopher Barrett, Derry Moloney, Ben Blaney and Josh Neill after theIR U20 Six Nations Championship victory over England at The Rec in Bath. Photo: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile Josh Neill turned 19 … Read more
Cardiff 8 Leinster 7 Leinster captain Max Deegan (centre) speaks with teammates in a huddle after their defeat to Cardiff. Photo: Sportsfile Leinster came unstuck in the wind and the rain in the Welsh capital as they slipped to their fourth defeat of the season in the United Rugby Championship. The foul weather made it … Read more
URC: Cardiff 8 Leinster 7 Harry Byrne’s first taste of action in over a month lasted only three minutes as Leinster’s 11-match unbeaten run ended at the Cardiff Arms Park and, with it, the chance to reach the URC summit. Released from the Ireland squad having not featuring in the opening three rounds of the … Read more