Despite the positive rhetoric and data showing shoots of growth, South African teams have failed to contribute significantly ...

Alex Nankivell played under Clayton McMillan for four seasons at the Chiefs. The team thought they had an identity until ...

It has cost us. To the tune of 10 failed World Cup campaigns dating back to the inaugural competition in 1987, during which ...

On the sideline French coach Fabien Galthié strolls among his players, a pat on the back here, a hand on a shoulder there. Not all the squad are yet out under the low grey sky. Another string of ...

In the fourth of a digital British and Irish Lions series in 2025 titled Lions Recollections, Irelands Rob Kearney looks back ...

I'm happy with the decision now ... “The team understand the impact that the three lads have had on Irish rugby,” Easterby said. “They've all become very close; they're not just Irish teammates but ...

And as far as Happy Birthday is concerned ... agent god of rugby was working in mysterious ways. Legendary Ireland women's rugby coach Philip 'Goose' Doyle and his wife Nicola had just moved ...

the IRFU possibly jiggin’ and reelin’ about the place in anticipation of zero opinion pieces on how they’ve banjaxed Irish women’s rugby. “England next,” said Joe, “how much will we ...

My father was a proud Ulsterman from Belfast and a staunch Ireland rugby fan. As I grew up during ... as the Six Nations titles accumulated, the happy-go-lucky Irish became entitled and full ...

Premiership clubs are reportedly circling to take three of Welsh rugby's brightest talents across the Severn Bridge. Blair ...

Simon Easterby says Ireland must "continually evolve" as they plot a squad rebuild on their summer tour after ceding the Six Nations title.

The coach insists last Saturday’s opening-round loss to France in Belfast was a significant step in Ireland’s journey when ...