Rugby

• 11 hours, 7 mins ago

  Connacht sign Ben O’Donnell and Abraham Papali’i

  Ben O'Donnell, nicknamed 'BOD', was named Australian Sevens Player of the Year in 2018 and became the first Australian to be nominated for World Sevens Player of the Year.

• 1 day ago

  Leinster winger Barry Daly quits rugby to pursue Master's in US

  Leinster wing Barry Daly has called time on his professional rugby career in order to pursue a Master's degree in the United States.



• 2 days ago

  RFU announces plans to make 139 positions redundant

  The English union has suffered significant financial pain because of the Covid-19 outbreak.

• 5 days ago

  Connacht sign Alex Wootton from Munster on season-long loan

  Wootton will be bidding to recapture the heights of his breakthrough 2017-18 season, when he was a regular starter for Munster and finished the term as top-try-scorer on nine tries.

• 5 days ago

  Israel Folau commits to Catalans Dragons

  The Australian moved to Super League at the start of the year after he was sacked by Rugby Australia for posting homophobic comments on social media.

• 13 days ago

  Leo Cullen wants winning farewells for Rob Kearney and Fergus McFadden

  Leo Cullen promised to do his utmost to ensure Leinster veterans Rob Kearney and Fergus McFadden get to play out the perfect-world scenarios to bring their careers with the province to a satisfying end.

• 13 days ago

  Champions Cup quarter-finals set for September, organisers announce

  Heineken Champions Cup organisers EPCR are reviewing the feasibility of staging its finals in Marseille in October having announced new dates for the knockout stages this morning

• 16 days ago

  De Allende to be fit for Munster's PRO14 restart; Carbery set September return date

  Munster are expecting World Cup winner Damian de Allende to recover from a short-term injury in time to make his debut for the province when professional rugby returns to action in August but Joey Carbery will have to wait another month.

• 16 days ago

  Clean bill of health for Munster and Leinster players

  Munster and Leinster have been given the greenlight to return to training on Monday by IRFU medics.

• 19 days ago

  IRFU welcome early return for sporting action and pledge safety will be paramount

  The IRFU has welcomed the announcement from government on Friday evening which will see all sports return on June 29, significantly earlier than originally planned in the roadmap to re-open society.

• 20 days ago

  RFU to review historical context of ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’

  The governing body feels many fans do not understand the song’s full history.

• 20 days ago

  PRO14 plan to finish season over four weekends

  Rankings for European qualification next season have already been decided.

• 22 days ago

  IRFU begins coronavirus tests ahead of provinces' return to training

  The IRFU is to begin Covid-19 testing for Munster and Leinster players and members of their support staff ahead of their planned return to training in Limerick and Dublin next Monday.

• 25 days ago

  Bryn Gatland seals dramatic win for the Highlanders against his father as rugby returns

  Close to 20,000 fans were allowed in to the Forsyth Barr Stadium, with social distancing measures not needed after New Zealand went three weeks without an active case of coronavirus.

• 24 days ago

  Conor Murray: Coronavirus shutdown could add two years to my career

  Time in lockdown has solidified Conor Murray's ambitions to end his career on a high and the Munster scrum-half believes the province has now got all the ingredients to claim its first silverware since a Celtic League title in 2011.