The inside story of an historic week for Ronan O’Gara and Stade Rochelais

It’s the one conversation where you are duty-bound to be as precise and brutal as necessary, where you leave no room for ambiguity and where all sides know exactly where they stand.

There is a deep sense of enjoyment seeing your dressing room doing the business – that’s one of the joys of professional sport.

I've known Mike Prendergast a lot longer than our cumulative years here in France. There'll be plenty more to discuss than a match the next day

I frequently transport myself back 16 years and the walk from the dressing room in the Millennium Stadium to the pitch-side. And Paulie reiterating as he led us out: We’ve got to play, boys’.

The sod is equally good in Lansdowne Road as it is in Thomond, the posts are the same width and now the stands will be heaving with red. It puts a lot of things back in the plus column for Munster lads

That Munster is Rowntree’s first venture into head coaching is a complete non-issue. We all start somewhere.

If I could argue that Saturday's game against Leinster is, long-term, more important for Munster than the Exeter double-header, would you hear me out?

Ahead of the 20222 TikTok Women's Six Nations, an open goal exists to put women’s rugby on a pedestal

The out-half dynamic was Ireland in microcosm at Twickenham – everybody got a bit distracted by 80 frantic minutes at Twickenham and didn’t really adjust to what was in front of them