Ireland's national sides had a clean sweep of wins, over Italy, on the opening Six Nations weekend. Unfortunately, however, the club representative XV lost out to their Scottish counterparts. It took a spectacular try for the Scots to edge a pulsating encounter.
Heriots flanker Jason Hill picked up the ball in his own half and embarked on an up-field surge, side-stepping two Irishmen and outpacing the covering defence to dive over. The converted, last-minute score made it 23-18 to Scotland.
How the Scots could have done with some devastating loose forward play like this at the weekend as they lost 15-8 to France in Paris.
Shocking stuff… Ahead of the release of his autobiography ‘All In’ – which comes out on September 24 – Peter O’Mahony detailed the contract negotiations as he entered into the last two seasons of his career with Munster and Ireland. At 34, he had just played in a World Cup quarter-final in October of 2023, […]
Not looking good…. Leo Cullen spoke to the media following Leinster’s pre-season demolition of Zebre on Saturday, in front of the new Anglesea stand at the Laya Arena. Most headlines centred around Cullen’s comments on his final season as head coach and whether we will see a ‘lame duck’ Leinster over the next few months. […]
The Prem is back! Summer might be over, but fear not, there is still plenty of sport to feast your eyes on. As always, the Premier League will provide the main action, but Clubber and TG4 are keeping the GAA club championships lit. On top of that, there is a very special game in Spain […]