LEINSTER’S LEO CULLEN was relieved to emerge with a five-point haul from a testing URC encounter in Edinburgh to banish some of the lingering pain from an opening visit to Scotland last season. Cullen ...

NEW ZEALAND SNAPPED a two-game losing streak with a nail-biting 31-28 win over Australia on Saturday, holding off a second-half charge to retain the Bledisloe Cup. Both sides scored four tries on a ...

IAN GRAHAM FOUND himself in a room at Liverpool’s old Melwood training ground, looking across a table at the silent, ...

Dundalk’s sole focus is on survival, by any means necessary. Their problems on the pitch started long before the gravity ...

“Both,” he says. “I enjoy it, and it’s more stressful. “It’s a valid answer, it’s true! There’s a different stress. There’s ...

BATH TURNED THE tables on English Premiership champions Northampton on the opening night of the new season with a 38-16 ...

TEENAGER MASON MELIA scored for the third match running as St Patrick’s Athletic made it three league wins on the bounce for ...

Derry City 1-1 Shamrock Rovers "It's a really disgraceful decision from the referee. He's so poor. He literally hasn't ...

THE CRAZY TURBULENT race for the Premier Division took another turn towards Inconsistency City, population Shels, Derry City ...

The year before Givens became the first men’s Irish player to score a hat-trick on the international stage since the war, ...

The Cork man dropped and stopped Poland’s Przemyslaw Runowski in the second round of their light-middleweight bout in Dublin.

In Dublin there were successes for Cuala and Ballymun Kickhams in the quarter-final double-header in Parnell Park. Con ...