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JOSH VAN DER Flier will start for Ireland against the All Blacks tomorrow at the Aviva Stadium [KO 7pm, RTÉ/Channel 4] after Dan Leavy was ruled out with injury. Leavy sat out Ireland’s training session yesterday, with head coach Joe Schmidt citing “full body soreness” as the reason for the openside flanker’s absence. With Leavy […]

Scotland 14Argentina 9 SCOTLAND MAY NOT have been at their free-flowing best, but Gregor Townsend’s side finished 2018 on a high note with a 14-9 victory over Argentina on Saturday. Three penalties from captain Greig Laidlaw and a superb try from Sean Maitland proved enough to secure a third successive home win for Scotland over […]

AS MUCH AS Johann van Graan will continue to claim these are weeks like any other, there is something special afoot. More than just the unique atmosphere promised by Thomond Park on a European matchday, Sunday seems set to be the day the head coach finally gets to field his first-choice playmakers. Between Conor Murray’s […]

MUNSTER WILL INSTALL additional seating at Thomond Park for their final Heineken Champions Cup pool game in January in anticipation of a sell-out for the visit of Exeter Chiefs. With all four teams still in mathematic contention to progress through to the quarter-finals, Pool 2 is set to go down to the wire with Munster […]

THERE WAS WIDESPREAD praise for TG4′s coverage of Munster’s Gunniess Pro14 clash with Connacht over the weekend, which featured a fascinating insight into Jerry Flannery’s coaching technique. The Munster forwards coach was wearing a microphone during their warm-up which captured him offering some pre-match advice to Keith Earls as well as directing the scrum ahead […]

Happy New Year Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang celebrates Arsenal’s fourth against Fulham on 1 January. Source: Kirsty Wigglesworth ‘Tis the season… Kjetil Jansrud of Norway during his run on the Super G at the Stelvio in Italy. Source: Imago/PA Images …for January hurling Waterford’s Billy Nolan with Michael O’Halloran of Cork. Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO Nerve-jangling title-deciders Poor […]

CORK CONSTITUTION CENTRE Niall Kenneally will captain the Ireland Club team in the first of two games against their Scottish counterparts in Edinburgh on Friday night [KO 7.30pm]. Kenneally is one of nine players retained from last year, as head coach Morgan Lennon blends experience with seven debutants in his starting XV for the Myerside […]

WHEN YOU CONSIDER Tom Farrell’s consistently excellent and standout form in the green of Connacht in isolation, few would quibble with his inclusion in Ireland’s Six Nations squad to be named by Joe Schmidt later today. He would be fully deserving of the opportunity. But the return to fitness of Chris Farrell at Munster and […]

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MUCH LIKE MANY of her now former team-mates, Paula Fitzpatrick stepped away from rugby quietly. No airs, graces or retirement swansong. No fuss, just exit stage left and move on with life. She became the latest of that golden generation — Philip Doyle’s team that caused a seismic shock by beating New Zealand at the […]