Irish Rugby: Where To Go From Here?
Ireland’s disastrous encounter with Argentina in the Rugby World Cup quarter finals last weekend, left hundreds of thousands of Irish fans in dismay. We learned that Joe Schmidt isn’t the answer...
Category: World Rugby
Sky Buy TV Rights For Summer Rugby Tours
Sky has successfully pipped BT Sport with the deal. It’s understood that Sky have paid significantly more than the current multimillion-pound deal with Sanzar, the umbrella body representing New Zealand, Australia...
Out of The Shade Comes Henry Slade
The biggest talking point this week has been the uninspiring performance by the English throughout the World Cup. A mediocre bonus point against Fiji, an eye opening defeat to Wales...
The Word According To Gordon
What Gordon D’Arcy has been doing for the Irish Times over the past few months is giving an insight to the sport of Rugby union that no one has seen before. Past...
Leinster & Ireland Star Forced To Retire At 31
Leinster Rugby and the IRFU today announced that backrow Kevin McLaughlin is to retire from rugby on medical grounds. Having sustained a concussion in the opening Guinness PRO12 game...
Rugby World Cup: Greatest Upsets Of All Time
Japan & Georgia both pulled off monumental upsets yesterday in their respective pool games. Let’s take a look back at some of the greatest world cup upsets of all time....
Jonathan Thomas Forced To Retire From Rugby
Wales international Jonathan Thomas has been forced to retire from rugby at the age of 32. Thomas, who helped the Worcester Warriors win promotion back to the Premiership last season,...
Don’t Conceal Jesse Kriel
Jesse Kriel’s meteoric rise on the international rugby scene makes him one of the most exciting prospects at next week’s World Cup. The 21 year old is seen as the...
OPINION: What’s in store for this months RWC
The last two weeks have been entirely focused on the announcement of each country’s 31 man Rugby World Cup squad. Hearts were broken and dreams were shattered, but it is...
No Blunders for Skudder
Milner-Skudder’s sudden rise is best summed up by the fact he did not recognise All Blacks manager Darren Shand’s number when he called to deliver the good news on Sunday....
