Bordeaux Bègles duly set up a home quarter-final against Munster next weekend and did so, for the most part, in cruise ...

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

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

Another week of Champions Cup means another week without the United Rugby Championship (URC ... And it’s not just Irish teams that are drawing interest. The derby between Edinburgh and Glasgow ...

An unrecognisable Toulouse team that contained none of their internationals, as well as two 19-year-old rookies, fought with ...

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 ...

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

That was just in time for this Saturday’s intriguing rendezvous with La Rochelle in the Stade Deflandre (kick-off 6.30pm local time/5.30pm Irish ... s just the way rugby works,” says ...

Several times in the history of the club we’ve had ... They have a ridiculous representation of Irish players that played week in, week out in the Six Nations, a quality, quality outfit and ...

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

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