Rugby World Cup

Fergus McFadden has endured the slings and arrows before. He’s been written off and he’s come back. At 31 years old here he is, still a fixture, still(...)

To err is human, to forgive divine, and as in everything when humans are involved in making decisions, there’ll be erroneous ones. All in all though,(...)

World Rugby is to set up an emergency dispute committee to review the controversial World Cup qualifier between Spain and Belgium. Belgium won the Ru(...)

Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding may move abroad to continue their respective rugby careers despite the fact that they are both under contract at Ulste(...)

The Romanian rugby federation (FRR) is withdrawing referee Vlad Iordachescu from being a fourth match official in the Challenge Cup quarter-final betw(...)

The two-time World Cup winning All Black centre Conrad Smith believes Joe Schmidt could become New Zealand coach when his contract runs out after the (...)

If any province needed a sliver of upbeat news it arrived for Ulster yesterday when Rory Best and Iain Henderson signed new contracts. It binds the tw(...)

The IRFU has announced that Ireland and Ulster captain Rory Best has signed a contract extension to the end of the Rugby World Cup in Japan. Best, w(...)

Twenty-three years after men’s rugby union was made professional, New Zealand’s national women’s team – the Black Ferns – will be offered paid contrac(...)

Ireland Under-20 international Angus Curtis comes from excellent rugby stock, his grandfather Arthur Bryan won three senior caps as a flanker in 1950,(...)