MUNSTER PAIR CHRIS Farrell and Tadhg Beirne will link up with Joe Schmidt’s Ireland squad today ahead of the trip to Italy in the Six Nations this weekend. Farrell was replaced in the first half of Munster’s win over the Kings on Saturday due to a knee injury and while the southern province say their
ENGLAND FORWARDS COACH Steve Borthwick has played down clashes that took place between England’s and Georgia’s players in front of children during training as routine “pushing and shoving”. It was reported that the session at a school in Oxford on Wednesday, which was watched by young pupils, became so heated that punches were thrown and
JOHNNY SEXTON WILL be assessed by the Leinster medical team again this week after the out-half pulled out of the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final win over Ulster with a quad issue. The Ireland out-half has not played for his province since December as he continues to be frustrated by injury setbacks, and Sexton is expected to
FORMER IRELAND INTERNATIONAL Ian Madigan slotted an 88th-minute conversion to give Pat Lam’s Bristol a crucial 26-24 win over Northampton in the Gallagher Premiership yesterday. The 30-times capped Irishman held his nerve off the tee after delivering the try-scoring pass to outside centre Piers O’Conor – an ex-Ireland U19 international – after Northampton were reduced to
LEINSTER ARE SET to be boosted by the return to fitness of Luke McGrath and Dan Leavy for Friday night’s Guinness Pro14 trip to Edinburgh, while Joe Tomane is also in line to make his injury comeback at Murrayfield. McGrath has recovered from the knee injury which sidelined him for the Six Nations while Leavy
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THE REAPPEARANCE OF Luke Marshall in an Ulster matchday squad is down primarily due to necessity with so many other options injured. However, as Dan McFarland alluded this afternoon, there’s something fitting about the centre returning in a Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final against Leinster, a marquee European fixture. Because it was in the line of
GLASGOW WARRIORS OUT-HALF Finn Russell remains under observation in Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital after suffering a serious head injury against Connacht last Saturday. The Scottish international collided with team-mate Zander Fagerson in the first minute of his team’s 16-11 defeat to Connacht in Galway over the weekend. Russell was transferred from University Hospital in Galway to
Murray Kinsella reports from Edinburgh JUST UNDER AN hour and a half before yesterday’s Guinness Pro12 final in Edinburgh yesterday, there was a special scene. Connacht fans – having flown, driven, ferried and bussed to get to the Scottish capital – flooded to the West Stand entrance of Murrayfield to welcome in their team. Connacht
IRELAND PUT TOGETHER complete performance in today’s first World Rugby U20 Championship semi-final against Argentina. Nigel Carolan’s Wolfpups will face either England or South Africa (who kicked off at 19.45) in the final, here’s who made getting there a joy to watch today. Andrew Porter In Sky’s analysis room Luke Fitzgerald casually threw in a