The international players are back as coach Leo Cullen has most of his players healthy for the visit of Harlequins ...

Irish hooker Neve Jones scored a try two weeks ago for her club side Gloucester-Hartbury, when they beat Saracens to win ...

Leinster have referee Pierre Brousset for their game against Harlequins; he, of course, is a regular performer in the Top 14.

Two weeks before the return of European rugby, the favourites to reach the final, Toulouse and Leinster, were narrowly defeated in their domestic competitions. An unrecognisable Toulouse team that ...

Italy got off to the worst possible start as they lost their secondrow Valeria Fedrighi to a yellow card for a shoulder to ...

Ioane has illuminated Connacht’s attack with his probing and distribution. Their 48 tries are just three shy of last season’s ...

Resilience is an important character trait for any sportsperson, one that Ireland scrumhalf Aoibheann Reilly has displayed in ...

Crowley hasn’t achieved as much at 25 as O’Gara and Sexton, but the Munster squad he’s part of bears no comparison to the ...

It is a measure of the huge strides made by the Irish team compared to the corresponding first round game 12 months ago in Le ...

Paul O’Connell is set to assume the role of Ireland interim head coach for the summer Tests against Georgia and Portugal in ...