After a man of the match performance against Romania, Keith Earls has every reason to feel good about life right now but the Ireland wing has admitted that life at the World Cup can be tough, with a young family back at home.

Paul O’Connell has revealed Joe Schmidt has challenged Ireland to bulk up for next year’s World Cup, admitting “we could be bigger and more physical”

Kitman Labs’ Injury Profiler has the backing of Leinster Rugby and premier league soccer clubs in the UK, and is now being trialled by some major league soccer clubs in the US, writes Trish Dromey.

When Leinster’s Six Nations heroes returned to provincial camp, they were met by the most advanced strand of medical and physical screening available.

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The Texan heat has been occupying the mind of IRFU strength and conditioning man Jason Cowman, but it has been a welcome relief to the series of injuries that beset the squad in his first Six Nations in the role.

A hard-hitting sexual assault awareness campaign targeting potential offenders has been launched at Irish universities to encourage men to change their attitudes.

GORDON D’ARCY spent ten months recovering from an arm broken in eight places but the Leinster back claims the injury he suffered against Italy last February may be one of the best things to have happened to him.

A CONTROVERSIAL €20 million superdump on the Cork/Limerick border is earmarked for a Bord Pleanála oral hearing.

THE threat by a member of Fianna Fáil to split ranks with his six party colleagues on Waterford County Council petered out at the conclusion of an extraordinary reconvened annual estimates meeting last night.

A NEW EU directive that kicks in today will add €40 million to the cost of dealing with waste each year, according to waste management specialist Greenstar.

TALL SHIPS revellers will have to be out of their bunks early tomorrow to see the 86 magnificent vessels depart Waterford.

FIVE Tall Ships have already arrived into Waterford but the bulk of the 87 ships expected to take part in the four-day event are not expected until late tonight or Wednesday morning.

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Irish waste management company Greenstar is to increase its staff numbers by around 65% over the next three years.

GREENSTAR, the waste management company owned by toll-road operator NTR, appointed Steve Cowman as its new chief executive yesterday.

Waste management company Greenstar's new CEO Steve Cowman has said the company will invest €80m in its national waste infrastructure next year.