Leinster’s Jimmy O’Brien in action during the URC quarter-final against Scarlets at the Aviva Stadium which attracted an attendance of just 12,879. Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile Leinster’s quest to win their first URC title is failing to catch the imagination of their wider support base, as another relatively small crowd is expected at the Aviva Stadium … Read more
Leinster’s Jordan Larmour has been passed fit for Saturday’s URC semi-final. Photo: Sportsfile Three key players in Leinster’s URC title tilt will face late fitness tests ahead of their crunch URC semi-final against Glasgow on Saturday afternoon (KO 2.45). Josh van der Flier will be further assessed this week for a hamstring injury he picked … Read more
Leo Cullen hopes to see a swollen Aviva Stadium on Saturday when Leinster face Glasgow in their United Rugby Championship (URC) semi-final (kick-off 2.45pm). A combination of the bank holiday weekend and the end of school and university terms reduced the stadium to a trickle of fans last Saturday. The official attendance for the quarter-final … Read more
Leinster head coach Leo Cullen needs to start getting more out of his players who are not playing to their potential. Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile I think I’m speaking on behalf of many when I describe the innermost feelings following Saturday’s URC quarter-finals as strange in the extreme. Both results, involving our two remaining runners in … Read more
ELAINE Porter asked “How do I bottle the feeling of the past month” while sharing cute snaps of her and husband Andrew’s first few days as parents. She gave birth to their first child sometime earlier this month. 6 Elaine shared this photo of her breastfeeding their son while still in the maternity hospitalCredit: @elainecporter … Read more
BRIAN O’DRISCOLL reckons Caelan Doris will try to shut off from rugby altogether during this summer’s British and Irish Lions tour. The Ireland legend reckons that the Leinster star will have to come to terms with missing the trip to Australia. 2 Brian O’Driscoll offered some advice to Caelan Doris after he missed Lions selection … Read more
Were Leinster to reach the Grand Final of the BKT URC on Saturday, June 14th, the province are understood to have plans in place to host the match in Croke Park. Although Leinster have won this title eight times in its previous iterations, they have never reached a final of what is now the URC, … Read more
Leinster 13 Glasgow Warriors 5 Adam Hastings of Glasgow Warriors claims a high ball ahead of Jordie Barrett of Leinster during the United Rugby Championship match at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile At the end of the deadest of dead rubbers, Leinster set up a URC quarter-final meeting with the Scarlets … Read more
URC: Leinster 13 Glasgow Warriors 5 Leinster will meet Welsh side Scarlets at home in the quarter-finals of the United Rugby Championship in two weeks after a laboured win over Glasgow at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday night. The Scarlets lost in South Africa to the Sharks and finish eighth on the table to Leinster’s … Read more
Hugo Keenan is focused on picking up the URC title before the Lions tour. Photo: Tyler Miller/Sportsfile Two sides of the same Irish rugby coin within a week – heart-warming for those on the right side of imminent immortality; heart-breaking for the others who history will soon forget. At a house in Clonskeagh last Thursday … Read more