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NO REST FOR the wicked. Days after his Ulster career was brought to a shuddering halt in Glasgow, Rory Best was back in training under Joe Schmidt’s orders. There was little time to dwell on the disappointment and there will be little time to switch off this summer. Aside from a quick family trip to […]

MUNSTER SECOND ROW Jean Kleyn is set to make his international rugby debut for Ireland when Joe Schmidt’s side begin their Rugby World Cup warm-up schedule against Italy at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday (kick-off 2pm). The South African lock is newly-qualified for Ireland under the three-year residency rule having moved to Munster after being […]

JAMES O’CONNOR IS edging closer to a stunning return to the Wallabies after the Queensland Reds announced a new deal with the once-exiled utility back. O’Connor joined Australia’s World Cup squad at a training camp in South Africa last week, some six years after a string of off-field incidents saw him banished from the Wallabies […]

NOT EVEN A single minute on the pitch in the warm-up games and already Ultan Dillane and Rory Scannell are on the outside looking in. The Connacht lock and Munster centre completed six gruelling weeks of pre-season with Ireland but the brutal nature of World Cup squad selection was underlined as Joe Schmidt opted to […]

BOTH MUNSTER AND Leinster scored six tries apiece as they got their respective women’s inter-provincial campaigns up and running in emphatic fashion on Saturday.  Munster ran in six tries as they defeated Ulster 38-12 at Musgrave Park in Cork, before defending champions Leinster followed suit by dispatching Connacht 34-6 at Donnybrook. Co-captain Chloe Pearse bagged […]

LEINSTER COULD BE handed a timely boost ahead of their New Year’s Eve clash against Ulster in the Guinness Pro12 [3.00pm, Sky Sports 2] with Johnny Sexton in the frame to feature in the inter-provincial fixture. A decision will be made later this week to see if the 31-year-old is fit enough to take to the field […]

1. J.A.N. (Kaori Yoneyama and Leo Onozaki) defeated Hina and Rina 2. Hana Kimura defeated Hanan 3. Queen’s Quest (Konami and AZM) defeated J.A.N. (Natsuko Tora and Saya Iida) 4. Arisa Hoshiki defeated Starlight Kid 5. EVE International Championship Match Utami Hayashishita (c) vs. Bea Priestley (No Contest) 6. Artist of Stardom Championship Match Mayu […]

EXACTLY 48 days after we last saw him involved in a game, Johnny Sexton will return to action in Leinster’s meeting with Zebre at the RDS tomorrow night. The 31-year-old missed Ireland’s final Test match of the November series against Australia due to the hamstring injury he sustained in the second meeting with the All […]

CHRIS HENRY HAS committed his future to Ulster by putting pen to paper on a new two-year deal which will see him remain at Kingspan Stadium until June 2019. The 32-year-old’s current deal, signed in October 2013, expired at the end of the current campaign and the northern province were quick to secure the flanker’s […]

RASSIE ERASMUS WAS a proud man on Saturday evening in Glasgow, for sure, but he kept coming back to the point that there is more to come from his Munster side. If the South African’s media dealings are anything to judge by, he is a master of staying on message. CJ Stander and Rhys Marshall […]