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British & Irish Lions ‘home tour’ could be expanded to four Tests
- Rugby
- February 23, 2021, 22:28
A final decision on this summer’s British & Irish Lions tour will be taken by the end of March with officials increasingly keen to host it on home(...)

Fitness sessions, meditation and the odd Peroni: Conor Murray’s lockdown routine
- Rugby
- May 2, 2020, 05:59
Conor Murray has just been speaking on FaceTime for the best part of an hour from his attic, or his “lair” as he calls it. There’s a big screen at one(...)

Lions’ proposed warm-up against Barbarians remains up in the air
- International
- December 3, 2019, 22:01
The British and Irish Lions are set to announce the schedule for their 2021 eight-match tour to South Africa but a proposed warm-up game against the B(...)

Tadhg Furlong now one of Irish rugby’s top earners
- Rugby
- May 17, 2018, 06:00
Tadhg Furlong’s three-year contract, one of 21 contracts announced by Leinster on Wednesday, puts the 25-year-old in Irish rugby’s high earner bracket(...)

Warren Gatland profile: former Ireland and Lions coach revealed
- International
- February 17, 2018, 01:00
Warren Gatland left Galwegians, Connacht and Ireland all in infinitely better condition than when he inherited them during a near decade of coaching i(...)

Gerry Thornley: Was Seán O’Brien right to speak out?
- Rugby
- September 26, 2017, 07:00
Seán O’Brien certainly grabbed and hogged the headlines last week. It was no surprise that his surprisingly and unusually frank critique of the Lions (...)

Robbie Henshaw: Lions were unbelievably well prepared
- Rugby
- September 22, 2017, 06:00
Regrets, he may have a few, but overall when Robbie Henshaw reflects on his first Lions tour he regards it as one of the highlights of his career to d(...)

Gerry Thornley: What rugby needs is more Lions, not less
- International
- July 11, 2017, 06:45
If ever a Lions tour in the professional tour provided compelling evidence that this wonderful relic of the amateur era should be maintained long into(...)

Jamie George calls for calm as history beckons for Lions
- International
- July 4, 2017, 22:00
A curious quirk of the Lions’ game against the Maori was that Tadhg Furlong was the only non-Saracens man in the Lions’ tight five, as happened again (...)

Éanna Falvey says Lions’ lack of injuries due to intense training
- International
- July 4, 2017, 22:00
The Lions squad will return to training on Wednesday before relocating to Auckland from Queenstown, where they enjoyed a couple of days off in the cou(...)