CONNACHT SAY MILS Muliaina will remain available to head coach Pat Lam when he recovers from a groin injury, after the province completed an internal review of the circumstances surrounding his questioning by police in England last weekend. The former All Blacks fullback was taken into custody almost immediately after Connacht’s Challenge Cup quarter-final defeat…
Murray Kinsella reports from Marseille The potential classics never transpired, but Champions Cup semi-final weekend served up ample excitement, tension, competition and pain. A stray cat runs across the turf at Stade Vélodrome yesterday. Source: James Crombie/INPHO Our weekend started in the sleepy city of Saint-Étienne, where it proved virtually impossible to locate a Saracens…
Click:for easy steering please FOUR IRISH PLAYERS are vying to win the 2015 Pro12 Try of the Year award. Ulster’s Craig Gilroy, Connacht’s Matt Healy and Munster duo Robin Copeland and Jack O’Donoghue are among the eight nominees for the prize, which will be announced on 17 May. Glasgow pair John Strauss and Peter Horne…
TOULON PROP XAVIER Chiocci usually takes pride in scoring from close range, but the big loosehead showed he’s capable of a 35-metre romp to the line too, during yesterday’s 37 – 21 win over Castres in the Top14. Source: Boucherie Ovalie/YouTube Click Here: collingwood magpies 2019 training guernsey Just look at the big man go (from…
IRELAND WOMEN SEVENS have unveiled their 12-strong squad that will bid for Olympic qualification over the upcoming two weekends. Mulhall in action for Wicklow in 2011. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO Director Anthony Eddy has included four players uncapped at this level including captain Lucy Mulhall, who won a junior All-Ireland football title with Wicklow in 2011.…
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GORDON D’ARCY CAN describe the magnitude of the World Cup in remarkably personal terms. After a career that (when it eventually comes to a close in October) will span five tournaments, this week has given the retiring 35-year-old his first opportunity to bask first-hand in the glow of the golden Webb Ellis Cup. Three days…
ENGLAND COACH STUART Lancaster has dropped five players from his initial 50-man pre-tournament World Cup squad, the Rugby Football Union have announced this morning. The remaining 45 players will now head off to a high-altitude training camp in Denver, Colorado as they battle to make the final 31-man squad which Lancaster, like all World Cup coaches,…
SEAN O’BRIEN WILL be on hand at Donnybrook Stadium on Saturday as a tag rugby event raises funds to support Aoife Beary, one of the students injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse last month. Source: Friends of Aoife Beary Ireland and Leinster back row O’Brien will hand out prizes to the winning teams in the Aoife Beary…
JOE SCHMIDT IS set to cut seven or eight players from his Ireland squad next week, as he looks towards eventually selecting just 31 players to bring to the World Cup in September. An excellent performance from his team in Wales this afternoon makes the task of picking 31 of his best players all the…