Tadhg Beirne and Ross Byrne can join Down Under debutants

In total, 15 Irish players have been handed a first cap in Australia for tour next month

Over 1,000 attend funeral of rugby international Willie Duggan

Many club, province and national teammates from ’70s and ’80s at Dunmore ceremony

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: One last time into the Six Nations breach with the old man

I say it every year. I can’t go through another championship sitting next to the old focker

Familiar names aiding Ireland’s latest bid for U-20 World Cup glory

Kiernan, Saunders and Kennedy – sons of the fathers answer Ireland’s call

Sport remains a glorious enterprise but major ethical questions abound

Falls far short of ideals where the essential was to have fought well not just winning

Rugby event to be held for Berkeley balcony collapse victim

Donal Canniffe and Fiona Coghlan to take part in tournament for family of Aoife Barry

Six Nations is back so let’s build those phases and put our bodies on the line

It’s our chance to savour George’s long goodbye but when Bowe scores – be cool

Once more into the breach for legends of the game in aid of cancer research

Two thoughts: what is a ‘legend’; and difference between ‘management and leadership?’

A French test that has proven difficult to pass

Grand Slam denying defeat in 1982 epitomises Ireland’s problems in Paris

Ian Keatley slowly emerging from the shadow of a legend

Munster outhalf knows he has a hard act to follow in Ronan O’Gara

Willie John in his underpants, puffing on his pipe, hotel lobby destroyed, hotel manager apoplectic . . . it’s the Lions on tour

Beds and decorum out the window par for the course in the old amateur tour days

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