JENNY MURPHY SAYS Ireland will look to lay down a marker during the Six Nations ahead of this summer’s World Cup on home soil. The centre missed last year’s Championship campaign through injury and only returned to the international stage last weekend as she made an impressive cameo in the warm-up defeat to Wales. With […]
JOEY CARBERY IS closing in on a return for Leinster after injury, and he has hopes of featuring for Ireland in the Six Nations. The 21-year-old was enjoying a breakthrough season with province and country before suffering an ankle injury in Leinster’s Champions Cup clash away to Northampton in December. Carbery won his first three […]
IT WOULD HAVE taken a brave man to cross Andy Farrell’s path yesterday as he pored over the defensive inaccuracies which contributed to Ireland’s Murrayfield disaster. He’s a formidable figure at the best of times but sitting at the top of Carton House’s press conference room, it was clear that Farrell was still simmering from […]
JOE SCHMIDT IS set to recall Donnacha Ryan to his Ireland team to face Italy on Saturday in the Six Nations, but wholesale changes are unlikely. The Munster man was left out of last weekend’s match day squad that lost to Scotland, although he did travel to Edinburgh as 24th man. Ryan helped Ireland to […]
IRELAND HEAD COACH Joe Schmidt welcomed the official confirmation that Jamie Heaslip has signed on with the IRFU until after the 2019 World Cup, while he is hopeful that Donnacha Ryan’s contractual situation will be sorted soon. Number eight Heaslip’s new contract with Leinster and Ireland was finally confirmed on Tuesday, with Schmidt stressing the […]
FORMER IRELAND HEAD coach Eddie O’Sullivan will join The42‘s Murray Kinsella for a Facebook Live preview of this weekend’s Six Nations action today. After last weekend’s rest, Ireland welcome France to Dublin for a Saturday tea-time showdown at the Aviva Stadium. Joe Schmidt’s side got their campaign up and running with a rout of Italy […]
THEY’VE BEEN EXCITED about 20-year-old Bill Johnston in Munster for quite a while now, but the promising out-half has had to patient. The late Anthony Foley gave Johnston his first taste of senior action in the province’s 2015 pre-season games, just two months after he had completed his Leaving Cert at Rockwell College. Johnston back […]
LEINSTER HEAD COACH Leo Cullen has made three changes to his starting line-up for tomorrow’s visit of the Scarlets to the RDS (19.35, TG4). Luke McGrath starts at scrum-half alongside Ross Byrne, whose presence ensures international squad member Joey Carbery is once again at fullback. The two other changes come to the pack as Hayden […]
Wales U20s 41 Ireland U20s 27 James Candy reports from Eirias Park. IRELAND UNDER-20′S BID for the Six Nations title were scuppered by a free-flowing Wales performance at Eirias Park tonight. Wales centre Kieran Williams crossed for a pair of tries to lead his men to a 41-27 triumph. Irish captain Calvin Nash scored first […]
SOUTH AFRICAN FORWARD Jean Deysel is to join Munster later this month on a short-term contract from the Sharks. Subject to being granted a valid work permit, the veteran lock will link up with the southern province on a three-month loan deal to cover for injured duo Dave Foley and Jean Kleyn. Foley requires surgery on […]