Australia

Such is the desperate need to restore Test rugby before the end of the year within Ireland and elsewhere that hosting the cancelled July tours in the (...)

With Dave Rennie’s appointment as Wallabies coach an important part of his predecessor Michael Cheika’s legacy will live on. When Cheika took over (...)

Michael Cheika has insisted he had no choice but to resign after Australia were dumped out of the World Cup by England. The former Leinster and Stade(...)

Michael Cheika said he would prefer to lose the Australian way, with ball in hand, than win by playing a more conservative game after the Wallabies cr(...)

England 40 Australia 16 Not for the first time in their Rugby World Cup history England gave their fans some palpitations en route, but Eddie Jones a(...)

Rugby World Cup quarter-final: England v Australia Kick-off: 8.15am Irish time, Saturday. Venue: Oita Stadium. How to follow: The Irish Times liveblo(...)

England’s Maro Itoje has slammed this week’s racist abuse in football as appalling and abysmal and warned that rugby union should not consider itself (...)

Australia 27 Georgia 8 Australia made heavy work of it in difficult conditions but outlasted a tough Georgia team to round out their Rugby World Cup (...)

The Australians are having fun. Alan Alaalatoa, the team’s 20-stone prop, thought for a second when asked if he could take David Pocock in an arm wr(...)

At the end of yet another week when the prevailing rugby mood was a bit on the glum side – the postmortem on Thursday’s narrow 35-0 win over Russia no(...)