Uini Atonio

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Ireland’s only try scorer in the last four matches against the French is scrumhalf Conor Murray (2017). Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images
Rugby stats: Ireland don’t need to try too hard to beat the French

Once upon a time Paris in the springtime used to send a shiver up the spine of Ireland rugby teams and supporters alike, an X-rated spectacle for the (...)

Guy Noves has made four changes to his France side for their Six Nations clash with Italy. Photograph: Inpho/Dan Sheridan
Guy Noves makes four changes for France’s clash with Italy

Fullback Brice Dulin will start for France against Italy in the Six Nations as manager Guy Noves makes four changes to his team for Saturday’s game at(...)

There are three changes to the French team to play Ireland on Saturday. Photograph: Reuters
France make three changes to starting XV for Aviva visit
  • Rugby
  • February 23, 2017, 11:23

France have made three changes to their starting line-up for the RBS 6 Nations clash with Ireland at the Aviva Stadium, the French Rugby Federation ha(...)

Ireland secondrow Devin Toner pictured at Carton House on Tuesday. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
Devin Toner: Whole pack must shoulder blame for scrum woes

Devin Toner has defended Ireland’s props saying the locks and backrow were as much to blame for the Irish scum being crushed in the second half of the(...)

Ireland’s Jack McGrath in action against Wales. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
Matt Williams: France will have set hearts on revenge

The major statistic from last week’s opening round of the Six Nations Championship is that France scored three tries. England and Italy scored two. Th(...)

Loosehead prop Jefferson Poirot will make his first start for France in Saturday’s Six Nations game against Ireland at Stade de France. Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images
France line up Ireland for ‘double hit’ with new props

France will blast Ireland with the “double hit” of new props Jefferson Poirot and Uinio Atonio in Saturday’s Six Nations battle in Paris, according to(...)

Virimi Vakatawa will make his first appearance in a side containing four uncapped players. Photograph: Getty Images
Noves brings in Vakatawa from leftfield

New France coach Guy Noves has made a bold choice by picking Sevens stalwart Virimi Vakatawa on the wing in a new-look team to face Italy in their op(...)

France’s prop Uini Atonio: “I was like ‘I would love to play for France’, but it was never in my mind.” Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images.
Slimmed-down Uini Atonio set to have big impact for France

Most biographies of Uini Atonio say his official weight is 155kg, or 24st 6lbs. According to French sources, that was his weight when he pitched up wi(...)

RBS 6 Nations Championship, Aviva Stadium, Dublin 14/2/2015Ireland vs France Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne
Ireland win brutally physical, suffocatingly tight encounter

It was all we’ve come to expect from modern-day Test rugby, brutally physical, suffocatingly tight, as taut as a wire and absorbing until the very fin(...)