The FRONT ROW UNION

I would guess any Irish Qualified Ulster players left in the province come the end of the month will be hobbling round on a stick pretending they are injured so [more]

The Wolfhounds fell away in the second half as England Saxons emerged as 14-10 winners of a closely-fought ‘A’ international match at the Sportsground. I had the pleasure of watching [more]

The IRFU have announced the team for tomorrow nights match against England Saxons which takes place at the Sportsground. While Paddy Jackson, Paul Marshall, Lewis Stevenson and even Iain Henderson [more]

In truth this game was over in 12 minutes when New Zealand ran in their second, of nine, tries in a record breaking win for the home side. Unfortunately, the first and third match in this series is the true reflection of Irish International Rugby[more]

After last weeks capitulation, Ireland really only had one way to go, but by no stretch of the imagination did I expect such a turnaround. Initially, there was a touch of complacency

As we’d said, when the tour squad was announced, we didn’t really expect a lot from this tour, but there were some boxes we were wanting to tick from an Ulster perspective. Did they happen? [more]

Barbarians 29 Ireland 28 Ulster’s Craig Gilroy was one of the few Irish players to sparkle in a 28 – 29 defeat to the Barbarians last night in Kingsholm. The [more]

I thought it would be a good few years till I was writing that sort of headline! OK, it may be a friendly against the Barbarians with Leinster players being rested but it is [more]

  Common sense prevailed yesterday as Ulster’s Stephen Ferris was withdrawn from Ireland’s summer tour to New Zealand. Leinster back row forward Kevin McLaughlin will travel in Ferris’ place. Despite only [more]

England Saxons 23 Wolfhounds 17 Despite outscoring England Saxons by three tries to two, few of the Irish Wolfhounds put their hand up for inclusion in the senior squad after [more]

Unsurprisingly Ireland’s World Cup build up ended in a whimper as a workmanlike England ground out a comfortable 20 – 9 victory. Ireland showed little imagination, often choosing the wrong option and the pack lacked [more]

The teams have been announced for Ireland’s final warm up game against England this Saturday afternoon at the Aviva Stadium KO 2:30pm. Both sides still have the look of a [more]

After tootling along on the road to glory, with a few miss-fires along the way, the Ireland engine gave up the ghost yesterday with a cough and a splutter as [more]

Didn’t see this one but here’s the gist from what we can gather. The Ireland Select XV ran in four second half tries to run out comfortable 38-3 winners over [more]

Ireland have announced the teams for Connacht and France. The team to face France features four Ulstermen with Trimble and Best starting and Court and Ferris to see some action [more]