William Webb

Champions Cup semi-finals: Saracens v Munster Kick off: 3pm, Saturday. Venue: Ricoh Arena. How to follow: The Irish Times li(...)

Some days are defining ones in your life as an athlete. For the Irish players, today is such a day. For Ireland it is black or white. Win and doors w(...)

No hurry for Murray The Conor Murray problem is exacerbated by the fact it is Conor Murray. When a scrumhalf suffers a dip in form – like Aaron Smith(...)

Clarity is Joe Schmidt’s greatest gift to Irish rugby. From the very beginning at Leinster, the summer of 2010, there was clarity for each and every (...)

Those who attended this week’s World Rugby Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Rugby, across the road from William Webb Ellis’s old playing fields, wer(...)

The Rolling Stones having been the first band to play in the U Arena last October, so Munster became the first away side to play in Racing’s new, futu(...)

Big-picture hats on. World Rugby’s humiliation, South African disgust (again) and French ecstasy combined to make Ireland’s ongoing wait for the World(...)

Former South Africa outhalf Joel Stransky has labelled World Rugby an “old boys’ club” and questioned the process to select the 2023 World Cup hosts a(...)

Scotland, Japan . . . Jamie Heaslip punched the air after seeing Ireland’s initial opponents come the 2019 World Cup. “We are happy with it,” said (...)

In those beautiful, tingling moments before the team departs the changing-room for the intensity of the warm-up, the emotion levels remain below the r(...)