“I got a little bit of a nasty one.” James Lowe has spoken about a foot injury he played on with during the 2023 World Cup, and which saw him miss three months of action, following the tournament. The Leinster winger only featured in one of Ireland’s World Cup warm-ups, last summer, but did enough […]

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“Now we can make it very, very personal.” Everyone that has watched episode two of the Springbok documentary on their World Cup win – Super Sport’s ‘Chasing the Sun 2’ – will be eagerly circling two big dates in the summer Test window. South Africa successfully defended their World Cup title in France, late last […]

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This crop of lads will provide many of the players that feature in the next World Cup(s). Ireland went into the 2023 World Cup with a vastly experienced squad. The average age of the Irish rugby squad was 29.4 years-old with only two teams, South Africa and Samoa, boasting greater maturity. It was all going […]

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“I think we need to step on the gas and say, ‘Yeah, let’s consider all things’.” The most recent World Cup saw an awful lot of box-kicking, rolling mauls, big moments hinging on scrum calls and the never fun caterpillar rucks. World Rugby is constantly looking at ways to improve the game, though, and there […]

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“It was like being with my five-year-old daughter!” Keith Earls made his first big media appearance, on Friday, after he hung up his boots and retired as a Munster and Ireland player. The Limerick native, who had his rugby swan song at the World Cup, was one of the main guests on The Late Late […]

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When a World Cup final is won by a single point, every decision will be pored over. Just when Kiwis were starting to move on from the gutting nature of a 12-11 World Cup final defeat, a report on that game suggests a brilliant Aaron Smith try should have been allowed to stand. You may […]

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