About two-thirds of the Lions starting XV for the first Test looked nailed on, and that figure would be even higher if Tommy Bowe, George North and Ja(...)

Ireland 40 Canada 14: Six tries, six new caps, two victories. This North American tour will never be viewed as a futile exercise by Joe Schmidt, Le(...)

Waratahs 17 Lions 47: The Lions impressively maintained their unbeaten record on this tour with a record winning margin in 21 meetings with the War(...)

Everywhere you go on this Oz Odyssey, you seem to run into coaches who served some of their apprenticeship in Ireland. Against the Waratahs on Saturda(...)

No sooner had the Lions tour of Australia experienced a vibrant lift-off than it is set to run anti-climactically to ground again. Following on from t(...)

Ireland winger Tommy Bowe will undergo surgery on a broken bone in his hand that he suffered against Queensland Reds and has yet to be ruled out of th(...)

Akin to the Rolling Stones on tour, Brian O’Driscoll tends to revisit big venues for encores. Tomorrow, he begins his fourth tour where he made his Li(...)

As expected, Brian O’Driscoll will lead a side containing another seven fellow Irishmen as Warren Gatland unveiled an entirely refreshed starting XV f(...)

Lions 59 Barbarians 8: For all the misgivings, to have emerged seemingly unscathed from this preamble to the Oz Odyssey constituted a satisfying be(...)

As expected, Paul O’Connell will lead the Lions in their opening tour match against the Barbarians in Hong Kong this Saturday in place of the stricken(...)