James Downey during a squad training session at Upper Canada College, Toronto, yesterday. Photograph: Inpho

*Jour·ney·man**n.*1. One who has fully served an apprenticeship in a trade or craft and is a qualified worker in another’s employ.2. an experienced re(...)

 Joe Schmidt in Toronto:  the new Ireland head coach is working behind the scenes to secure a forwards and kicking  coach. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho

During Saturday’s drinking session at the BBVA Compass stadium in Houston one of the few sober Americans wondered how many of the Ireland team would b(...)

David Kilcoyne will battle it out with Tom Court for the loosehead spot against the United States on Saturday. Photograph:   Billy Stickland/Inpho

The Ireland squad embarked on this North American tour without a scrum coach, with Greg Feek on some well earned down time having double-jobbed with L(...)

Seán Cronin: is currently understudy to Richardt Strauss at Leinster. Photograph:  Ryan Byrne/Inpho

Seán Cronin has joined the Ireland squad in Carton House as they prepare for a tour of the USA and Canada in June. The Leinster hooker has been bumped(...)

Jamie Heaslip: Hopes to send his departing Leinster colleagues away on a high. Photogrpah: Billy Stickland/Inpho

Too cool for school maybe, but Jamie Heaslip cares profoundly about his profession. He’s certainly no rugby nerd, by his own admission, and is (...)

After this try by Brian O’Driscoll in Saturday’s Amlin Challenge Cup semi-final, the entire stadium broke into a chant of “one more year”. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

A spring day with firm ground and apart from a few missed chances early on that in different circumstances may have come back to haunt L(...)

Leinster head coach Joe Schmidt: “When you’ve got a team like Biarritz coming to town, it’s not too much of a distraction because you’ve really got to keep your focus on what’s in front of you.”

Leinster coach Joe Schmidt is unlikely to hear from the IRFU before this weekend regarding the vacant Irish coaching job. Although Schmidt said(...)

Leinster’s Brian O’Driscoll and Joe Schmidt celebrate after winning last season’s Heineken Cup final at Twickenham. Photograph: Inpho

In the world of the semaphore Brian O’Driscoll went megaphone. Yesterday’s amble around the thoughts of the Irish centre may have touched on ti(...)

Leinster  coach Joe Schmidt is the favourite for the Ireland job.  Photograph: Donall Farmer/Inpho

Leinster coach Joe Schmidt has indicated his preference for international rugby at this stage of his life and expects to hear by the end of nex(...)

 Former South Africa coach Jake White intends to stay with the Brumbies. Photograph:  Scott Barbour/Getty Images

World Cup-winning coach Jake White has ruled himself out of the running for the Ireland job, saying he wants to continue his work with the Brum(...)

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