“I don’t know what it is with the Irish and this Dublin 6!” It started out as a nice meal out at a city centre restaurant and ended up with ‘a big drama, someone getting carried into the hotel’ and 15 Australian players receiving knuckle-raps of varying forced. Back in 2013, the Wallabies were in […]

5 years ago

There was a lot of hand-wringing when Leinster signed the Aussie ahead of the 2017/18 season. Scott Fardy had played a World Cup final at blindside and many feared – with merit – that Leinster would be blocking their up-an-coming back rows by lumping the Wallaby into the selection mix. Leinster assured us all that […]

7 years ago

Leinster Rugby players Johnny Sexton, Scott Fardy and Tadhg Furlong have all been shortlisted for the EPCR European Player of the Year award. Fardy, Furlong and Sexton are joined on the shortlist by Racing second-row Leone Nakarawa and teammate Maxime Machenaud, who was not included in the original 15-man longlist released by the EPCR in January. The […]

8 years ago

Until he proves that he’s no longer Sean O’Brien you have to believe that Sean O’Brien will still be Sean O’Brien when it’s time to be Sean O’Brien. O’Brien, a fit and eager Sean O’Brien, has been named at openside flanker for Leinster’s PRO14 match with Treviso on Saturday after recovering from a shoulder injury […]

8 years ago

Dublin-Dublin-Bilbao

8 years ago

Surely the last thing they need

9 years ago