Half-marathon also-rans get to share the roads with the buses
And if they were a minute over the limit they’d be running against buses, cars and, worse, e-bikes, the roads reopened at ...
Lions’ roar reverberates through Ireland coaching team
Lions tour of Australia three-ish months away, Andy Farrell now has his coaching team in place, Nathan Johns reporting on ...
Simon Easterby and John Fogarty set to be confirmed as British & Irish Lions coaches
Simon Easterby is expected to be confirmed as the British & Irish Lions defence coach and John Fogarty as scrum coach when ...
Women’s Six Nations: Team by team guide, fixtures and predictions
Probably no team in the world sport is as dominant as England in the Women’s Six Nations. Since their 18-17 loss to France on ...
Owen Doyle: Italy had a great chance to beat Ireland but they hit the self-destruct button
Ireland huffed and they puffed, and eventually the Italian house blew down.
Gerry Thornley’s Six Nations Team of the Tournament: Three Irish players make the cut
His eight tries broke the record for most tries in a single Six Nations campaign, surpassing the seven scored by Jacob Stockdale in 2018, and equalled England’s Cyril Lowe and Scotland’s Ian Smith, ...
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How Ireland came dangerously close to a rare defeat to Italy
Two and a half minutes from time, James Lowe came in off his wing and Manuel Zuliani offloaded one-handed to the talented 23-year-old Italian replacement Leonardo Marin. A star of the future was ...
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Sense of anticlimax as Ireland’s campaign peters out
There are no guarantees in sport and there are reasons why no team has ever won three outright Six Nations Championship titles in a row. Yet, as the Green Army invaded and took over the Eternal ...
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Simon Easterby frustrated by Ireland’s missed tackles and coughing up of possession
Simon Easterby sought to accentuate the positives in an Irish Six Nations campaign which yielded four wins out of five but there was also no disguising his frustration with a performance which ...
Italy vs Ireland as it happened: Easterby’s men secure four-try bonus point at Stadio Olimpico in patchy display
Hello and welcome to the Irish Times Rugby blog on the final weekend of the Six Nations Championship. John O’Sullivan here, in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, where Italy host an Ireland team looking for ...
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Usually officials get things right in the Six Nations, not on that James Lowe pass
Usually, the referee with the help of his assistants and the TMO get things right in Six Nations matches. If there is an issue spotted, the referee stops play, looks, and, if there is an ...