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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]

I’d forgotten how bad it was to listen to the studio analysis on RTE and having watched Australian coverage of the Tri Nations match a few hours earlier the contrast in the [more]

Best, Wallace and Trimble are included in the Ireland side for Saturday night’s World Cup warm up match against France. Trimble features in an unchanged back three alongside Kearney and Fitzgerald. [more]

These World Cup warm up games are always going to be difficult to gauge, when you have first strings against dirt trackers is a win a win? Do moral victories [more]

Ireland have announced, what would largely be regarded as, an makeshift side for their first match on the road to World Cup glory. The team to face the Scots at [more]

First-half tries from Denis Hurley and skipper Chris Henry gave the Wolfhounds a 20 – 11 victory at a wind-battered Ravenhill. Didn’t get to this one as I had chosen [more]

The Wolfhounds were beaten 32-13 by Scotland ‘A’ at Netherdale on Friday night, after turning around at the break with a 13-9 lead. Willie Faloon scored on his Ireland A [more]

Oh dear! I’ve been reading some of my old posts over the last few days, while I fiddled about with the site, and I thought that I’d been a bit [more]

Dan and Ed obviously took on board all the tips they got from Dergman at the FRU Awards! They are instantly rewarded with an Ireland run out this Friday night …

Ulster Captain Courageous, Chris Henry, gets the chance for senior honours in Ireland’s tour to New Zealand and Australia. (Didn’t Darren Cave look young when he played for Ireland U21′s) …

Thanks to Flat-top who trotted along to his regular stomping ground to stalk a few Ulster players …

Ireland A face England Saxons in Bath, lets hope the Wolfhounds see some changes next week …

Should be an interesting game as (the still to be re-branded) Ireland A take on the Jaguares …