MICHAEL BRADLEY has been reappointed as coach to the Ireland A team for this season’s internationals and onto the Churchill Cup in June.

The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) today confirmed the coach and manager positions for representative teams for the coming season.

Former Leinster and Ireland coach Gerry Murphy has been employed as the new Provincial Domestic Team Manager.

The Irish Rugby Football Union has announced the management teams for the Ireland under-20 and Ireland under 18 Club international sides.

The Ireland U18 club side continued their great run of form in the FIRA U18 Championships in France by defeating England U18 10-7 today to reach the final of the competition for the first time.

IT’S six o’clock on Wednesday evening and Richard Kearney is making the first of two visits to Donnybrook this week.

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SPIRITED and hungry, rescued prisoner of war Private Jessica Lynch arrived in Germany for treatment of two broken legs and bullet wounds she suffered in a fierce gunfight with her Iraqi captors.

A teenage American woman soldier is among a dozen soldiers reported missing after a supply convoy was ambushed in southern Iraq, her father said.