Jonny Sexton

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Bundee Aki at Connacht Rugby Squad training in the Sportsground, Galway. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Andy Friend: 'We know if we run straight into them we will probably lose that battle’

The forecast for Galway on Sunday afternoon is dry and sunny but on Wednesday afternoon, as the Connacht squad returned to the dressing-room following(...)

Phil Coulter’s Ireland’s Call has earned a kind of begrudging acceptance over the years through the absence of an alternative. Photograph: Jayne Russell/Inpho
Vanilla words of Ireland’s Call an unlikely antidote to bitter divide

On Syokaun-Dori Avenue, about a half-hour train ride away from Tokyo Stadium where Johnny Sexton, on Friday, went through the captain’s run under heav(...)

Joey Carbery can become the other playmaker Ireland need. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
Matt Williams: Warm-ups vital for Ireland to recover form and confidence

In what had been a titanic 2003 RWC semi-final, time was running out for New Zealand and Australia were seconds away from winning through to the World(...)

Munster’s Joey Carbery clashes with Leinster’s Johnny Sexton last year at Thomond Park. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
Matt Williams: Leinster and Munster is a battle of pride after European heartbreak

I am amazed that some in rugby consider the 2018-19 season a failure for Irish club rugby. All four provinces reached the quarter-finals of the Heine(...)

Leinster’s Isa Nacewa consoles Racing 92’s Teddy Thomas after the latter’s error handed the Irish province victory in the Champions Cup final in Bilbao last year. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Matt Williams: Irish teams must follow golden rules of knock-out rugby

With four exciting matches featuring the form club teams in Europe, the Champions Cup quarter-finals weekend is my favourite in the club rugby season.(...)

Ireland’s Tadhg Furlong with England’s Maro Itoje and Mark Wilson at the Aviva Stadium. England came to Dublin to prove themselves, and to regain respect. Now Ireland have to go to Edinburgh and do the same. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho
Matt Williams: Scotland will test the mental strength of a wounded team

Being ambushed in rugby has never been a pleasant experience. Being ambushed in your own backyard is downright humiliating. If we cast our minds back(...)

TJ Perenara leads New Zealand in the haka ahead of the auyumn international against Ireland at the Aviva stadium. Photograph: Phil Walter/Getty Images
Sense of destiny was there from the minute Irish crowd challenged the haka

Thirty-five minutes in, Ireland deep in the New Zealand 22 and Kieran Read is genuflecting on one knee as a medic tests his shoulder and arm. The big (...)

The consistently high performance of the Irish scrum has been a revelation. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Matt Williams: Pack can ensure Irish victory but don’t underestimate Scotland

There are many eternal truths in rugby. The first is that ‘forwards win matches, backs decide by how much’. While Jonny Sexton’s Parisian drop goal (...)

Ireland’s Johnny Sexton looks on as French players form a huddle following their defeat in the Six Nations clash at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA
Matt Williams: Gendarme was right – Ireland stole win in Paris

While many Irish supporters were wearily making their way back from France to Ireland, I was doing the opposite. Dublin to Barcelona, then a drive bac(...)

Mayo’s Eoin O’Donoghue and Kerry’s Shane Enright scuffle. Photograph; John McVitty/Inpho
Kerry get their teenage kicks in Castlebar

Kerry 1-15 Mayo 2-9 Sometimes it’s good to stir the hornets net. Kerry’s youngsters came to Castlebar, shot the lights out, bullied venerable Mayo na(...)

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