All posts tagged "Leinster"
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Features
/ 5 years agoMan up, or Wales will get a Dublin thrashing
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND No way through: Chris Harris of Scotland tackles Liam Williams PICTURE: Getty Images As I...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSexton’s so inspirational – but let’s hope to spoil his 100th cap
THE one key man Wales must close down on Friday night is Johnny Sexton. It will be his 100th Test match...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoCooney on hand to keep Ulster on track
ULSTER skills coach Dan Soper believes the advantage lies with Glasgow Warriors ahead of their clash at the Kingspan tomorrow evening,...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoProtheroe has belief in new-look Ospreys
By ROB COLE Honest: Toby Booth Ospreys fan: Mat Protheroe is back home PICTURE: Getty Images THE all-conquering Leinster machine will...
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Features
/ 5 years agoDoris has pressed his claim for Lions – Geech
NEWS EXTRA By GARY FITZGERALD CAELAN Doris is developing into a Lions contender according to Sir Ian McGeechan, who coached the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRob backs Biden
JOE BIDEN’S slow motion ‘coronation’ as President of the USA will have been causing excitement to his extended family in Ireland...
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Features
/ 5 years agoVan Dyk signs for Exeter
EXETER CHIEFS have bolstered their prop stocks with South African Maks van Dyk. The 28-year-old tighthead will provide cover when England’s...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoKiwi Lowe gets Irish call
LEINSTER wing James Lowe has been included in Andy Farrell’s Ireland squad for the inaugural Autumn Nations Cup. The New Zealand-born...
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International Rugby
/ 5 years agoBilly Burns in for Ireland’s Autumn Nations Cup squad
Former Gloucester fly-half Burns has been named in Andy Farrell's Ireland squad, that welcomes back Keith Earls into the fold
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoIronman Matt demands steel
■By ALEX BYWATER Up for the challenge: Dragons lock Matthew Screech LAST season’s PRO14 Ironman Matthew Screech will bring up a...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoReproduce that second half display says Booth
By ROB COLE Proud: Toby Booth Promoted: Duncan Jones WHATEVER Toby Booth said to his Ospreys players at half-time last weekend...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoGlasgow boosted by Scotland returnees
■By ADAM ELLIS Preview Glasgow v Leinster Monday, Kick-off 8.15pm, Scotstoun GLASGOW WARRIORS welcome back eight players released by Scotland head...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSensational Sheehan steals show on debut
■ By JOHN FALLON IRELAND flanker Dan Leavy returned from a knee injury for his first action in 19 months but...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRyan challenges fledglings to silence Coetzee
■By ROB COLE THE DRAGONS may not have Welsh internationals Ross Moriarty or Aaron Wainwright with which to try to blunt...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoGareth’s golden boot sets Exeter on their way
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Features
/ 5 years agoExeter’s steady climb shows there is hope for all of us
Q&A STEVE BODEN ON THE RECORD Former Leeds, Doncaster and Jersey hooker and recently appointed Doncaster head coach Steve Boden talks...
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Features
/ 5 years agoLee’s restored Wasps sting
TOM VALE TALKS TO LEE BLACKETT, THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR WASPS’ DRAMATIC CHANGE IN FORTUNES Lee Blackett remembers the morning after...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRed card rules out Irish lock
IAIN Henderson will miss the remainder of Ireland’s Six Nations campaign after receiving a three-match ban for his red card against...
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Features
/ 5 years ago‘Having an opinion in this day and age is not a good thing’ – James Haskell
Now his autobiography is out, James Haskell is unabating in his value of being himself after adhering to RFU and club...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoGuscott column: Exeter Chiefs will need all their gumption to win Champions Cup
Can Exeter win at the first time of asking against a Racing 92 side who have lost two finals?
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Features
/ 5 years agoBrash? Yes, I don’t want to be boring!
ADAM ELLIS talks to England flanker turned author James Haskell Man of many talents: James Haskell in England action, MMA training...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWasn’t pretty but at least we got the bonus says Cullen
By JOHN FALLON LEINSTER coach Leo Cullen was happy to come through another gruelling battle against Benetton to extend their winning...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 5 years agoSchmidt takes on new role in Dublin
NEWS EXTRA FORMER Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt will start a new role next month as World Rugby’s director of rugby...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoCooney’s left out in the cold by Farrell
ULSTER scrum-half John Cooney has been left out of Ireland’s squad for the final two rounds of the Six Nations. Connacht’s...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoLeinster up and running but Sexton limps out
By DECLAN ROONEY DEAN Ryan’s Dragons got little change from a trip to face the PRO14 champions as Ashton Hewitt’s wonder...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoRugby Matters: Humble beginning but Heineken Cup dreamt big
Brendan Gallagher at how the Champions Cup, or Heineken Cup, has always drawn big crowds far beyond club rugby's norm
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoGuscott column: World Cup winners will bring box office appeal
Are the Welsh, Scottish and Irish clubs of the PRO14 set to clock more air miles?
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoPremiership play-off race going down to the wire
Nick Cain looks at the Premiership run-in with three play-off places still up for grabs
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoVunipola: Vincent Koch showed he is the best tighthead on the planet
England prop Mako Vunipola lauds the individual performance of Saracens teammate Vincent Koch in the win over Leinster
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Features
/ 5 years agoHumble beginning but Heineken dreamt big
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER SO now, in this most unusual and mind-bending season, we finally have the two finalists for the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoUlstermen outclassed by Kolbe and Co
ULSTER were swept aside by Toulouse to compound the misery of losing to Leinster in the PRO14 final. Wing Cheslin Kolbe...
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Features
/ 5 years agoCoffee empire can wait, I want to give my all to coaching now
RYAN LAMB ON THE RECORD Q&A Newly appointed Hartpury backs coach Ryan Lamb, 34, tells NEALE HARVEY how he landed his...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWeakened sides could sabotage title run-in
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST You did not need to be Inspector Maigret to work out that Agen were up to no...
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Features
/ 5 years agoMakes no sense to relegate Saracens
COLIN BOAG Small steps forwards: Gloucester play Harlequins in front of 1,000 fans at Kingsholm Sometimes we have to push our...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoDeadly Teddy keeps Racing out of reach
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Racing away: Francois Trinh Duc celebrates his try RACING 92, with Teddy Iribaren in killer form with the...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoGoode’s very good, Saracens are superb
By NICK CAIN Immense: Vincent Koch ALEX Goode went on a three-day knees-up after Saracens beat Leinster in the European Cup...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoBarritt so proud of Sarries’ spirit
BRAD Barritt paid tribute to his team-mates - and looked forward to playing the semi-final in France alongside them. “This team...
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoUlster call on Cooney to shoot down Top 14 giants
By SAM JACKSON Recall: John Cooney comes in for Alby Mathewson SCRUM-HALF John Cooney has been recalled to Ulster’s starting line-up...
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Features
/ 5 years agoJimmy Gopperth is having a blast at youth-inspired Premiership challengers Wasps
Nick Cain discusses Wasps revival under Lee Blackett and his hopes for the future now he is 37
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoTEAMS: Johnny Sexton captains Leinster in Champions Cup showdown with Saracens
Leo Cullen and Mark McCall have named their line-up for the repeat of last year's Champions Cup final
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Champions Cup
/ 5 years agoLosing Owen Farrell won’t stop us winning, says Saracens’ Wray
Saracens vice-captain Jackson Wray previews the repeat of last year's Champions Cup final this weekend in the quarters
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRegions would benefit from having Welsh leadership, says Robin McBryde
Leinster forwards coach Robin McBryde shares his view on no Welsh region having a Welsh head coach
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoLeinster show their class to outshine Ulster in PRO14 final
Leo Cullen and Leinster lift the PRO14 trophy for the third year running
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoBlackrock’s class of ’96 is a story of future Ireland stars and hidden gems
Leo Cullen and Brian O'Driscoll both came through the corridors of Blackrock College
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoOwen Farrell avoids ten-game ban for high tackle on Wasps’ Atkinson
Farrell has ten-game entry point reduced to five as panel grants mitigating factors after testimony from Mark McCall and Eddie Jones
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoJackson column: How could the mighty Ospreys fall so far?
The Ospreys enter a new decade disheveled from the glory days of ten years ago
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoHewett column: Why mess with a format that made the Champions Cup great?
Home and away knockout legs in the Champions Cup? Oh EPCR, what have you done?
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoRed-card Farrell set to miss Leinster
By MIKE SINCLAIR Crunch: Owen Farrell catches Charlie Atkinson on the head ENGLAND captain Owen Farrell looks certain to be banned...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoWhy mess with this great Heineken Cup format?
The word “aggregate” has secured its own place in the darkest corner of the rugby lexicon, along with “biting”, “gouging”, “match-day...












