South Africa

If this slightly remodelled Ireland squad lacks some of the leadership figures of yore, one of the most exciting things about this forthcoming series (...)

Venue: Newlands Stadium, Cape Town. Kick-off: 5pm local time/4pm Irish time. On TV: Live on Sky Sports 1 HD. First off, as a rule, a game of rugby(...)

He wears it well. It’s hard to credit that Robbie Henshaw won’t turn 23 until Sunday, but he arrives in his first trek to South Africa with the highes(...)

As a one-off assignment, and certainly as a series, Saturday’s first meeting with the Springboks on South African soil in a dozen years looks about as(...)

Joe Schmidt admitted that the Irish team to face South Africa in Cape Town on Saturday is both a mixture of inexperience and experience, along with f(...)

Necessity being the mother of invention, both Ireland and South Africa are likely to unveil much changed line-ups when Joe Schmidt and Allister Coetze(...)

It’s winter in Cape Town but these things are relative. A fully fit Irish squad conducted their first training session in the sumptuous surrounds of W(...)

A three-Test tour to South Africa at the end of a year-long World Cup season may be what World Rugby’s global Test itinerary demands, but it is not ex(...)

Ireland coach Joe Schmidt is an equal opportunities employer, so Ian Madigan and Paddy Jackson shared the outhalf duties in training sessions during (...)

Simon Zebo and Matt Healy appear to be the leading contenders to replace the stricken Luke Fitzgerald tomorrow in the 32-man squad which departs for t(...)