For the first time in more than half a century, the Lions completed a Test series without a single try from anyone behind the scrum

Is Alun Wyn Jones’ starting spot up for discussion ahead of the deciding Lions Test next weekend?

TMO Marius Jonker's impartiality made the Lions hierarchy look mean-spirited, at best

Not even Ross Byrne’s late converted try could save Leinster from their worst semi-final defeat since Munster, and O’Gara, outplayed them in 2006

With a little help from his friends, Healy has turned it into such a thriving cottage industry that he now stands within sight of doing what no professional rugby player has ever done, winning five Champions’ Cup finals. Only Johnny Sexton can match that, concussion protocols permitting

“I’m going to miss this place,” said Stander, looking round at the empty Thomond Park stands through watery eyes. Not as much as they are going to miss him

Had Hollywood’s most creative minds colluded in dreaming up an identical narrative, the script would have been shredded as too far-fetched, even for a work of fiction, never mind for real

A Grand Slam winner earns an extra 1% bonus, worth more than €1m as stumped up by the five other countries.

Nobody had seen as much smoke billowing out of Martin Johnson’s cauliflowered ears since England drove him into a state of near volcanic eruption at Croke Park in 2009.

On a routine Monday at Dublin Airport as a dejected Wales team shuffled through security, fans from the fanatical fringe of the Red Dragon Brotherhood greeted them with a spontaneous sound. They burst into a song, not of praise but damnation.