How good did it feel to be Irish at tea-time on Saturday? How good did it feel to witness an Irish team stand up to such...
Rugby
Munster emerge from French ‘toilet bowl' smelling of roses!
Munster emerge from French ‘toilet bowl' smelling of roses!
The Stade de Saipac in Montauban is known as the ‘toilet bowl’ or, in the parochial tongue, ‘la cuvette’, once again...
Second half surge yields double bonus for Park
Second half surge yields double bonus for Park
Waterpark 35; Connemara 40 Seventeen points down at half-time on a bitterly cold Saturday afternoon, it was difficult not to...
Rampant Munster send Sale packing and demonstrate their intent to rivals
Rampant Munster send Sale packing and demonstrate their intent to rivals
Yet another unforgettable night in this heaving cauldron. Yet another night when the men of Munster had heroes all over the...
Wallace and O'Leary excel as Munster clip Ospreys' wings
Wallace and O'Leary excel as Munster clip Ospreys' wings
Here’s a good table quiz question following Friday’s action in Swansea: what team won a Magners League match in...
Carrick-on-Suir RFC
Carrick-on-Suir RFC
The Carrick-on-Suir dressing room was a quiet one last Saturday night in the appropriately windswept Ardgeeha grounds, the...
Dungarvan's kids and local ladies lift the spirits at a chilly Thomond
Dungarvan's kids and local ladies lift the spirits at a chilly Thomond
Thank the stars for Dungarvan’s Under 10 team, who provided the numbed (in more ways than one) masses with some sterling...
Problems mount for Munster as Ulster dish out five try drubbing
Problems mount for Munster as Ulster dish out five try drubbing
Well if you thought that the defeat in Galway was as bad as it could get for Munster over the festive season, you’d have...
Losing bonus only consolation as Munster slip up in Galway
Losing bonus only consolation as Munster slip up in Galway
The last time Connacht got one over Munster on their own patch, Pope John Paul II was the most famous person to visit our island...
A Lion-sized dollop of top rugby trivia
A Lion-sized dollop of top rugby trivia
Miscellany books have become a popular addition to the festive literary canon in recent years and we bookworms’ lives are...
A team that continues to defy all logic
A team that continues to defy all logic
Sunday morning. May 23rd 2008. The Port of Holyhead. Cars carrying all manners of red drapery are thronged with the tired,...
Losing bonus in Clermont should serve Munster well on Saturday
Losing bonus in Clermont should serve Munster well on Saturday
A losing bonus point may have been secured on Sunday last, but there was no concealing Munster’s disappointment at the end...
