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• What did the South Africans ever do for us?
Over the last fortnight, Facebook fans of the official Rugby World Cup have been voting on their favourite players to make up the 2011 Rugby World Cup Dream Team. Based on suggestions a shortlist of names for each position was posted daily and saw 160,000 votes being cast. The final 15 is below a
O'Gara gets the nod again to start in the Rugby World Cup quarter-final against Wales at Wellington Regional Stadium, having seen off Sexton for the starting spot against Italy he's done it again. Kidney has brushed aside concerns that Wales will target O'Gara's defensive capabilities. Rory Best
Three tries in the second half saw Ireland through to the quarter finals of the Rugby World Cup 2011 as Pool C winners! O'Driscoll's 45th try moved Ireland to 17-9 in the second half and with players all stepping up tot he mark the space was created for Keith Earls to celebrate his 24th birthday
A win ? A draw ? A defeat with two bonus point? Nobody really cares which way Ireland do it, all of the above work as results on Sunday which would see Ireland go through to the knockout stages. The euphoria of that win over Australia is over, it's time to knuckle down. We always knew tha
Paul O'Connell is Ireland's biggest concern ahead of the game against Italy in Pool D on Sunday. The Lions captain picked up a hamstring injury in his superb performance against Australia last week. Whoever loses the Pool D clash faces a trip home, but that won't force the Ireland management's ha
Ireland will be likely to attempt to persuade Ronan O'Gara to delay his international retirement after he hinted at it during a recent World Cup interview, saying he would be: Â "done with Ireland in a few weeks" Paul McNaughton, the Ireland team manager has said that Ireland's leading points scor
Ireland started well in very wet conditions in Stadium Taranaki pushing the US Eagles back on to their line, however they couldn't maintain this as play became scrappy through handling errors (hopefully due to the weather). Sexton finally scored his third penalty (what is it about this ball and k
It was lost in the 51st minute, with an outrageous try which will be debated, watched and re-watched for many. many years to come - but we'll come back to that in a minute... Setbacks started early for Ireland with Eoin Reddan replaced by Pete Stringer after taking a Lee Byrne clearance full in t
Ronan O'Gara came off the bench in the Stadio Flaminio to inspire Ireland to 13-11 victory after it looked like it was all over with McLean's try, now he says Ireland must be 'gutsy' if they want to stand any chance against France on Sunday. "I play rugby to win and that's the bottom line," said O'
It wouldn't be the first time a team has come unstuck in Rome, and it wouldn't be the first time Ireland have stuttered to gel on the first game of the Six Nations - but that performance was more of a concern than we've seen in a long time! O'Gara dragged Ireland from the jaws of defeat with a
