Stuart Lancaster

Stuart Lancaster is very confident that the quartet of injured Leinster players who will link up with the Irish squad this week – Tadhg Furlong, James(...)

The Heineken Champions Cup returns if not with its customary bang, then with a good deal more than a whimper as well, not least hereabouts. Not for th(...)

Ireland’s most decorated player of all time plays his final game of rugby this afternoon. Rob Kearney will hang up his boots once and for all after pl(...)

Eddie Jones spent Sunday morning holding one-on-one meetings with his players before sending them home with a spring in their step. He then met his co(...)

No doubt much will be made of the probable inclusion of three New Zealand-born players in the Ireland match-day squad to face the All Blacks next Satu(...)

He’d dreamed of a career in professional rugby, both as a player and maybe then a coach. But the disappointment of realising that he wasn’t going to m(...)

There’ll be quibbles and hard-luck stories, there always are when an Irish squad is named, but given the hand that Andy Farrell and his coaches have b(...)

If you were to guess at the essential properties of the demeanour of Leinster and Ireland’s Jamison Gibson-Park after a 10-minute conversation, they w(...)

Johnny Sexton remains both the problem and the solution per se. If that sounds like fortune cookie wisdom it’s not meant to be, instead a statement th(...)

So far then, perhaps not so good. The arrival of the four South African franchises into the United Rugby Championship has proved a more humbling exerc(...)