Defending champions show all their rugby nous to hold off game Springboks

Team to face Wales in quarter-final includes five key players all under 24 years of age

Gavin Cummiskey gauges the mood as Springboks roar back to life against Samoa

Springboks run in six tries against Samoa at Villa Park

South Africa to rely on traditional game to banish memories of defeat to Japan

Japan bring world crashing down around Springboks as Eddie Jones’s men record win for the ages

‘The first time I played for Ireland was a very proud moment for me. I don’t think that’s going to change’

Springboks coach criticised by country’s biggest trade union for ‘racist choices’

South Africa coach turns to experience for trip to Twickenham

Ireland smarter in seeking out space as well as collisions, and more opportunistic

Rhys Ruddock and Tommy Bowe score tries on epic night at the Aviva Stadium

Matt Williams believes Heyneke Meyer has added flair to physicality and it is a masterstroke

All-Leinster frontrow charged with keeping South Africa at bay

Heyneke Meyer hoping Ulster’s talismanic scrumhalf can overcome knee injury

Club chief executive Mick Dawson says rugby needs to have partners for a strong future

Frans Malherbe comes in at tighthead prop for the injured Jannie du Plessis ahead of the clash with Wales

Leinster’s new signing has been called up and will travel to Australia and then New Zealand

Argentine coach Santiago Phelan says his side needs to ‘grow up’ after 60-point defeat

Leinster hooker elevated following Rory Best’s selection for the Lions