STORMERS 43-25 CONNACHT Manie Libbok scored 23 points, including two tries, as Stormers beat Connacht in Cape Town to reach the United Rugby Championship final, for the second season in a row. Connacht started the better of the two sides and took an early lead through a Jack Carty penalty. Soon after, Mack Hansen scored […]

3 years ago

“Me and Bundee bounce off each other a bit, now.” Conor Oliver and Bundee Aki on the same team together is a recipe for a rip-roaring match. The flanker and centre are chalk and chalk when it comes to bringing the fight to opposition teams. Oliver narrowly missed out on Six Nations squad selection, but […]

4 years ago

“I felt like I had a point to prove.” If you think that missing out on the first pass of Ireland’s 2022 Six Nations squad would throw Conor Oliver off course, you may not have followed his journey too closely. He does not always take the straightest path. Andy Farrell named a 37-man Ireland squad […]

4 years ago

“I just get after it, and play hard.” With Conor Oliver and rugby, there have been silver linings and clouds. Clouds and silver linings. Back at Skerries Community College, after impressing in their Junior Cup run, he was offered the chance to do his Leaving Cert in Blackrock College. The commute, and training to make […]

4 years ago

Ireland are Grand Slam winners, Leinster are European champions and we’ll have at least one Irish province in the PRO14 final. Irish Rugby is in a good space. Leinster will be aiming for a historic double later this month to add to their Champions Cup win while Munster will be desperate to finish their season […]

8 years ago

Munster have re-signed the promising quartet of Sammy Arnold, Darren O’Shea, Conor Oliver and Dan Goggin to two-year contracts that will see them remain with the province until June 2020. Arnold, who joined the province at the start of the 2016-17 season, endured a number of injury set-backs in his first year but impressed mightily in […]

8 years ago