Ireland’s Michael McKillop missed out on a 10th gold World Para Athletics Championships, finishing fourth yesterday in the T38 1500m final in Dubai.

The IRFU have described claims made by The Times (UK) journalist Stephen Jones as 'scurrilous and untrue'.

Typhoon Hagibis already making its presence felt as footage emerges of flooding

Scotland have urged World Cup bosses to see sense and push their win-or-bust showdown with Japan out of Typhoon Hagibis’ path of destruction.

World Rugby chiefs have been slammed for failing to reschedule matches impacted this weekend by Typhoon Hagibis. Could they learn lessons from other organisations in dealing with such worst-case scenarios?

Joe Schmidt is hoping Ireland’s long lead-in to their final pool game will help his team put in the performance tomorrow that will take them into the World Cup quarter-finals.

Sergio Parisse has hit out at World Rugby’s “ridiculous” decision to cancel Italy’s World Cup match against New Zealand.

Ireland are carrying on regardless as they wait for guidance from World Rugby on whether Typhoon Hagibis will affect their final pool game against Samoa on Saturday in Fukuoka.

World Rugby’s admission that match officials made several incorrect decisions against Ireland in their defeat to Japan has led Joe Schmidt to urge his players to be cautious.

Ireland coach Joe Schmidt has received confirmation from World Rugby that three penalties awarded to Japan during Saturday's shock 19-12 defeat to the host nation in Shizuoka were “incorrect calls” by Australian referee Angus Gardner and his match officials.

World Rugby has issued an apology to Georgia after a Russian song was played to celebrate their win over Uruguay yesterday.

Covering the Wales rugby side is never dull, but the start of the team’s World Cup campaign in Japan saw them breach already lofty standards of controversy.

Michael Cheika picked a fight with the World Cup organisers yesterday over their banning of Reece Hodge, adamant that Australia had been singled out for special treatment.

Joe Schmidt is expecting an upturn in refereeing standards and consistency following the officials’ very public dressing down by World Rugby this week.

For weeks on end, a veritable posse of law enforcers queued up to hammer the warning home, that dangerous tackles meant instant dismissal.

Malcolm O’Kelly has told Devin Toner not to switch off after he was sensationally left out of Joe Schmidt’s 31 man Rugby World Cup squad.

These are the hours Joe Schmidt has been dreading.

Joe Schmidt has urged his players to be “cleaner than clean” and not hand their World Cup fates over to match officials during Ireland’s summer Tests.

Eir sport has unveiled a "new and fresh" looking Rugby World Cup team of experts, with Gordon D’Arcy, Peter Stringer and Jerry Flannery fronting studio analysis for Japan in the autumn.

World Rugby Chairman Bill Beaumont has expressed his disappointment the game's global governing body abandoned plans for a new 'Nations Championship'.

The latest twist in the Brexit saga, promising as it may be politically, does nothing to ease the plight of businesses trading with the UK.

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There are many examples that can be given to demonstrate just how talented a player Franco Mostert is.

Brian O'Driscoll has appealed to World Rugby to address the "blight on the game" of slide tackles.

Australia full-back Israel Folau has been banned for one match for contact in the air during last Saturday's third Test defeat by Ireland.

World Rugby has been asked to consider reducing the legal height for a tackle after a seventh successive season of increased incidents of concussion in the English professional game.

Eddie Jones has lodged a complaint with World Rugby over the conduct of Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones towards referee Pascal Gauzere in Cardiff last Saturday.

Joe Schmidt was under no illusions as he surveyed the fast-approaching 2018 Six Nations Championship.

South Africa began the day as favourites to land the hosting rights for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. 

Nobody should really be surprised the board of World Rugby, the sport’s governing body, has recommended South Africa as its unanimous choice to host the 2023 World Cup.

November 15 next is a date that has loomed large on the Irish rugby calendar for some time, yet you won’t find a fixture of any consequence on the day.

All’s fair in love and war and, it seems, the bidding process for major sporting events.

France has placed finances above everything in a bid to host Rugby World Cup 2023 ahead of rivals Ireland and South Africa, writes Barry Coughlan of the Irish Examiner.

IRFU chief executive Philip Browne has refused to countenance whether the union would regroup and launch a fresh bid for the 2027 Rugby World Cup in the event that its bid to play host to the 2023 tournament fails to get the go-ahead later this year.

Conor O’Shea expects mutterings of mirth but still remains convinced Italy will boast a “very good team” inside three years.

Glasgow 12 Munster 14: With no frills and few thrills Munster left Glasgow on Saturday night with everything they had hoped for. 

Joe Schmidt believes the intervention of World Rugby referees’ chief Alain Rolland will help prevent a repeat of the controversies that marred Ireland’s rematch with New Zealand last weekend.