Ireland will kick off their next Six Nations campaign at Croke Park on Saturday February 7th against France, before facing a Valentine’s weekend fixture in Rome on the Sunday lunchtime (2.30pm). With a week off before they host England and then head to Murrayfield to take on Scotland on March 14th. The final game on [...]
It was probably England’s most inspiring performance to date in this Six Nations getting their first victory over the Irish in five games between the two.
Things couldn’t have been more different from that historic victory (for not just sporting reasons) at Croke Park last year, only Phil Vickery made it back into the squad for [...]
England secured their Grand Slam and championship double tonight at Kingsholm, running home seven tries!
Scorers: England: Tries: Seb Stegmann, Hugo Ellis, Luke Eves, Matt Cox, Noah Cato, Nathan Catt, Mark Odejobi; Cons: Alex Goode 4
Ireland: Try: David Kearney; Pens: Ian Madigan 3
60 years ago today, on March 13th 1948 Ireland beat Wales 6-4 at Ravenhill to clinch a Grand Slam and a Triple Crown. IrishRugby.ie met up with the surviving members of the squad and have reviewed the games of that season.
Ronan O’Gara will lead Ireland out at Twickenham against England on Saturday.
IRELAND TEAM & REPLACEMENTS (v England, 2008 RBS 6 Nations, Twickenham, Saturday, March 15, kick-off 3pm local time):
Player / Club / Caps
15 - Geordan Murphy (Leicester Tigers) 55
14 - Tommy Bowe (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster) 12
13 - Andrew Trimble (Ballymena/Ulster) 23
12 - Shane Horgan (Boyne/Leinster) 60
11 [...]
The changes will be run on Saturday when the Six Nations is decided, although the Ireland v England game will do little to affect the final result with only France or Wales eligible to win.
In the absence of Brian O’Driscoll, Ronan O’Gara will captain a side, which will once again include Geordan Murphy and have [...]
Brian O’Driscoll will only be out for three to four weeks as a scan delivered a positive diagnosis on his hamstring tear.
With no first choice centre partnership (D’Arcy already has a fracture forearm), Ireland must trying a new midfield partnership, Horgan being the likely candidate to move from the right wing to inside centre and [...]
Brian O’Driscoll will miss the final clash of the Six Nations for Ireland against England on the 15th March after suffering a hamstring tear in the defeat against Wales.
O’Driscoll could be out for upto two months pending a scan on Monday, but O’Sullivan is confident he will be available for the summer tour.
Shane Williams skill showed on the day, as Wales powered to a deserved victory over Ireland in what had been billed as match of the tournament- but never managed to reach the boiling point of expectation.
Ireland got off to a flying start with two tries in the first half coming from Marie Barrett and Joy Neville to make it it 10-3. Wales clawed back with two penalties from Non Evans and Louise Rickard’s converted try left Ireland 6 points down at the interval (10-16).
Evans scored again in the second half, [...]