Tadhg Furlong is nominated for the third year in a row.

Friday night in Cork is set to be a major landmark for Stephen Archer, but he won’t be thinking about it too much.

Anyone who has ever over-indulged on a night out knows that the extent of the hangover isn’t always directly related to the number of drinks downed before the head hits the pillow.

It’s time to call a truce on Rugby Country’s culture war

Just like about everything else he did with the Lions in 2005, Clive Woodward may have overthought and overdone it when trying to acknowledge and respect the locals’ customs, his suggestion upon consulting a Maori elder that his captain greet the haka by pulling up some grass and throwing it the way of Tana Umaga resulting in Brian O’Driscoll being stretchered off moments later.

Eddie O’Sullivan curls a smile and offers a bald, one-word answer when asked to sum up his experiences of Rugby World Cups.

The Tipperary County Council are seeking further information on the redevelopment of Semple Stadium’s Kinane Stand before deciding to give it the go-ahead.

The Thurles Gaelic Sportsground Society Ltd and Tipperary County Board have been asked for more details concerning the multi-million plans to transform the area affectionately known as The Old Stand.

Ahead of Saturday's eagerly awaited Heineken Champions Cup semi-final clash between Munster and Saracens we look back at previous titanic clashes between these two old rivals.

Joey Carbery has been named in the Munster team for tomorrow's Champions Cup quarter-final against Edinburgh at Murrayfield.

It’s a big evening on the channel that used to be TV3 — Virgin Media One, in case you weren’t sure (and for the record I wasn’t, not fully).

Cork chairwoman Tracey Kennedy was last night accused of “hiding behind a court injunction” when refusing to answer questions on the decision to terminate the employment of senior administrator Diarmuid O’Donovan.

Courageous sports stars are helping to deepen our awareness of mental health but a lot more needs to be done, says Kieran Shannon.

Billy Holland will make his 200th appearance for Munster when he lines out against Connacht in Saturday’s crucial Guinness PRO14 game at the Galway Sportsground.

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

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

"We're always talking about the great values of rugby, there were no great values there on Saturday I can tell you."

Alan Quinlan is "very excited" for the Andy Farrell era, as the IRFU revealed the successor to outgoing head coach Joe Schmidt.

Tributes have been pouring in for Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt who has announced he'll step away from coaching after the 2019 World Cup.

Ulster have confirmed the appointment of Dan McFarland as their new head coach.

All you need to know this lunchtime

Enda McEvoy gives the TV View of Ireland’s winning match with England. 

TV3 is to change its name as part of a major rebranding of the station later this year.

There was a time when teams boasting outstanding forward packs brought the All-Ireland League title to Limerick almost as a matter of course.

Munster forwards coach Jerry Flannery has launched a stinging attack on Alan Quinlan, his former teammate with Ireland and the province, accusing Quinlan of delivering ill-informed media punditry.

Conor Murray is a maker of moments.

There are tributes and then there is the Donncha O’Callaghan variety, as hundreds of mourners learned yesterday at the funeral Mass for the late Munster Rugby media manager Pat Geraghty, 62, in Celbridge, Co Kildare.

Chloe Ryan, 23, from Limerick’s South Circular Road, won the Irish, Ulster, and Munster girls’ golf titles in her teens and first played for Munster Ladies when she was just 15.  She plays off a +3.5 handicap for Castletroy Golf Club and Ireland. This week, she is playing in the Irish Women’s Close Championships in Mullingar GC.

Ronan O’Gara’s eldest kids almost stole the show after watching their father receive the Freedom of Cork.

The British and Irish Lions squad announcement followed the usual pattern — a majority of predictable selections, a few left field picks, some surprise omissions along with the customary bolter. Warren Gatland was always good for a few of those and in Ross Moriarty, Ben Te’o and Ireland’s Jared Payne, he didn’t disappoint.

I have always believed that the announcement of the 2009 Lions squad to tour South Africa, eleven days before that epic Heineken Cup semi-final between Munster and Leinster in front of 82,000 people at Croke Park, played a key role in the southern province’s demise that day, writes Donal Lenihan.

Like so many of those who knew Anthony Foley, James Downey could not believe the news last October that his former boss had passed away so suddenly.

In the midst of leading fast-paced, busy lives, many of us can barely find the time to address our physical health, let alone our mental health. 

He may not have got the chance to do what he loves most and scrummaged against the Scots last week but just being on the pitch at Murrayfield making his Six Nations debut was a dream come true for John Ryan given the journey he has taken of late.

France won’t win next year’s Six Nations championship for the very reason Joe Schmidt’s Ireland just might: discipline, writes Ronan O’Gara.

‘The journey isn’t over. This is just another station on the way’

As smash hit double acts go, European professional club rugby never saw anything quite like Anthony Foley and Munster.