Overwhelming backing for Irish international’s post-Kingspan Park game tweet

Leinster will top Pool 1 in Champions Cup with a win over Wasps next weekend

Former stalwarts like ex-Bandon RFC coach Sonnes helping club reclaim its old identity

Champions’ missing big guns tilts the balance towards confident Toulouse

Number eight says European champions excited in advance of key RDS clash

Leinster must be ‘controlled and composed’ against Toulouse on Saturday

‘It’s always tough no matter who you’re playing against and tonight was no different’

For clampdown on high tackles to work the entire sport needs to be re-educated

Toulouse players were both cited for incidents in opening game against Bath

World Rugby need to be sure about which problem they are trying to solve

Champions Cup organisers clear up discrepancy over TV and stadium clock

Former Munster man apologetic following try-scoring gesture in win over Ulster

Formidable champions unlikely to be daunted these days by a trip to Toulouse

Club say whistle was blown early and also believe French side should have been down to 13 men

Jerome Kaino is banned for five weeks and Lucas Pointud for four weeks after Bath win

Jerome Kaino and Lucas Pointud both cited following last weekend’s win over Bath

Munster’s 10-10 draw in Sandy Park against Exeter was the best result for the Irish sides

Fullback misses kick and try opportunity late on as French side win at The Rec

A look at the 20 sides in the 2018-19 Heineken Cup who are bidding for the ultimate prize

Exeter Chiefs outhalf ready to face former Ireland U-21 team-mate Jonathan Sexton

All Blacks run in four second-half tries to claim victory at Twickenham

Centre served four-match ban after red card in second Test against Lions

Leinster’s injury list mounting with Henshaw out and Sexton and O’Brien set for scans

Steve Hansen’s side will walk away with more regrets after thrilling finale at Eden Park

Officials missed the fact that Kieran Read was three yards in front of the ball at restart

World Rugby may investigate Alun Wyn Jones’s temporary replacement of Sam Warburton late on in Auckland

Late decision to downgrade penalty offence a brave but questionable call

Aaron Smith remains the best scrumhalf in world rugby while Retallick and Whitelock immense

Warren Gatland’s side weather ferocious All Blacks storm to earn a 15-15 draw in Auckland

New Zealand media’s treatment of Warren Gatland is disgraceful, says coach’s assistant

The third test is the hardest, but Lions have tries in them if opportunities come

Lions’ ability to cut off the supply of quick ball at source laid the foundation to Wellington win

Sam Cane excelled but Beauden Barrett misfired and SBW tarnished his legacy

Kiwi media particularly scathing of Sonny Bill Williams after second Test loss to Lions

All Blacks reduced to 14-men in 25th minute as Sonny Bill Williams sent off

‘If anything, they get stronger in the breakdown having him there,’ the All Black said

Kaino was seen diving at Murray as he box-kicked away, rolling into his standing leg

‘As a New Zealander I would expect he would know the New Zealand psyche,’ Hansen said

Lions coach concerned after scrumhalf targeted during first Test defeat in Auckland

O’Brien’s try threw the visitors a lifeline but New Zealand’s class told long before the end