Updated Saturday 12.50 REIGNING LEINSTER SENIOR Cup champions Belvedere College have been pitted into a re-run of last year’s semi-final with St Michael’s for the 2017 quarter-final. The draw was made in Donnybrook today in the aftermath of Gonzaga’s hard fought win over Castleknock, the Ranelagh school have been drawn to face 2016’s beaten senior […]
Read MoreThis is part of The42′s Class of 95 series, a week-long examination of professional rugby in Ireland. JUST ANOTHER GAME. January 18 2014. Brett Wilkinson is warmed-up and ready for a Heineken Cup game. The surface is synthetic, the surrounding stands unfamiliar, but everything else is finely-tuned routine. 30 years of age, Wilkinson has lived […]
Read MoreAN IRISHMAN WHO was in Rome to watch the Six Nations match against Italy was arrested after allegedly trying to grab a rifle belonging to a soldier. The man was out with a group of Irish fans on Friday when they walked by a number of soldiers who were guarding the Spanish embassy at around […]
Read MoreUlster director of rugby Les Kiss. Source: Presseye/Thierry Zocolan/INPHO SOUTH AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL Marcell Coetzee will make his long-awaited debut for Ulster in tomorrow night’s Guinness Pro12 meeting with ninth-placed Edinburgh at Kingspan Stadium [KO 7.35pm, BBC Sport NI]. Coeztee, capped 28 times for the Springboks, has been sidelined with a knee injury since joining the […]
Read MoreIreland 13 Click Here: baby knitted scarf France 10 Murray Kinsella reports from Donnybrook IRELAND WOMEN REMAIN on track for a Grand Slam after a third win in three Six Nations games, following up victories over Scotland and Italy with success against France in front of 3,886 people at Donnybrook this afternoon. Ireland are still […]
Read MoreFORMER IRELAND HEAD coach Eddie O’Sullivan believes Ian Madigan’s struggles with Bordeaux this season will underline to Irish players just how tough a move to the French Top 14 can be. Ireland out-half Johnny Sexton had a testing time in his two years with Racing 92 from 2013 and 2015, while Madigan is now looking […]
Read MoreCardiff Blues 13 Munster 23 RORY SCANNELL STEPPED into the outside half role for three quarters of the game and came good in the end to steer Munster to a much needed win in the battle for a play-off place in the Guinness PRO12. The Blues had beaten the southern province in Cork, 24-23, earlier […]
Read MoreIRISHMAN MIKE PRENDERGAST has been appointed attack coach of French club Oyonnax ahead of the 2017/18 season. Oyonnax are the current leaders of France’s second division, Pro D2, and are expected to be promoted into the Top 14 for next season. Prendergast is on his way to Oyonnax next season. Prendergast will join the club […]
Read MoreONE MIGHT HAVE expected that Rassie Erasmus dipped into the archives in the past fortnight to take a look at Munster’s most recent European Cup quarter-final, particularly given that it came against Toulouse. The southern province host the Top 14 side on Saturday in Limerick, three years after they dismantled them 47-23 at Thomond Park […]
Read More1. Raul Mendoza defeated Cezar Bononi 2. Reina Gonzalez defeated Kavita Devi 3. Shane Thorne defeated Nick Comoroto 4. Jermaine Haley (w/Court Moore) defeated Daniel Vidot 5. The Street Profits defeated Jeff Parker and Matt Lee -After the match, Eric Bugenhagen plays air guitar with the Profits. 6. Vanessa Borne and Aliyah defeated Kacy Catanzaro […]
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