Person: Hayden Triggs

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Towering Toner still reaching new heights

A good lock is hard to find.

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Fardy joins greats of the foreign legion

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Ryan’s 21-game winning streak

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James Lowe won't be making friends with future Leinster teammates when Maori All Blacks play the Lions

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Lions facing ‘brutal’ tour schedule down under, warns Isa Nacewa

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Hayden Triggs has left his mark and is walking away on a high

Isa Nacewa to captain Leinster who welcome injured trio back

Isa Nacewa has overcome his recent injury concern to captain Leinster for the visit of Cardiff to the RDS.

Fri, 24 Mar, 2017

Leo Cullen welcomes Scott Fardy knowhow

Leinster head coach Leo Cullen says Scott Fardy’s experience will play a crucial role in the development of the academy players at the province. The 32-year-old versatile Brumbies lock will join Leinster after the Super Rugby season ends.

Sat, 04 Mar, 2017

Leinster go top with big win over Dragons

Leinster moved to the top of the Guinness PRO12 table after hammering Newport Gwent Dragons 54-22.

Fri, 24 Feb, 2017

Leo Cullen content with progress

Regardless of events tonight, it has been a year of progress for Leinster.

Fri, 20 Jan, 2017

Treatment of Murray was atrociously dangerous

Ronan O'Gara says Conor Murray is right to be peeved. 

Fri, 20 Jan, 2017

Contrite Leinster lock Hayden Triggs gets three-week ban

Hayden Triggs has been ruled out of Leinster’s final Champions Cup pool game with Castres tomorrow night, after the lock received a three-week ban for making contact with the eye area of Montpellier’s Nic White during last Friday’s win at the RDS.

Thu, 19 Jan, 2017

Leinster warm up in style

Leinster 70 Zebre 6: Leinster had the game done and dusted by the time the returning Johnny Sexton left the field last night, on 55 minutes.

Sat, 07 Jan, 2017

Morning briefing: 12 dead after truck rams into Berlin market. Catch up on all the headlines

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Tue, 20 Dec, 2016

Hayden Triggs: ‘You wouldn’t wish losing a child on your worst enemy’

Games between Leinster and Munster haven’t exactly justified the hype of late.

Tue, 20 Dec, 2016

Leinster v Newport Gwent Dragons - Guinness PRO12 Round 10

Bonus-point win sends Leinster joint top of Pro 12 with Munster

Leinster have got a a bonus-point win over the Dragons at the RDS this evening.

Sat, 03 Dec, 2016

Devin Toner has high hopes for European campaign

It was called Route 6’6”. With the stocks of tall second rows at a critically low ebb, Leinster launched the search for alternatives around about this time five years ago.

Wed, 12 Oct, 2016

Today’s Ulster Bank League previews

A look ahead to today’s action in Divisions 1A and 1B...

Sat, 24 Sep, 2016

Jason Holland offers old foes Leinster a shot of Jamison Gibson-Park

Jason Holland spent over a decade serving Munster’s cause on and off the field before returning home to coach in New Zealand, but it seems the southern province’s cult hero has been instrumental in giving old rivals Leinster a bit of a leg up of late.

Tue, 20 Sep, 2016

Ulster almost secure bonus-point win over Leinster

Ulster stayed on course to make the Guinness PRO12 play-offs by defeating Leinster 30-6 in a pulsating derby clash at the Kingspan Stadium.

Sat, 30 Apr, 2016

Leo Cullen wants ‘a more killer instinct’ from Leinster

Leinster 19 Ospreys 16: The view from the Leinster coaching box was this margin of victory should never have been so tight, but such is the strength of the Guinness PRO12 right now they can expect much of the same from here on in.

Mon, 07 Mar, 2016

Dr Eanna Falvey has welcomed the growing public awareness of concussion in rugby

After six years with the Irish rugby team, Dr Eanna Falvey stepped down as their doctor before Christmas. Doesn’t mean time for a Netflix binge, mind. 

Fri, 26 Feb, 2016

Like Wilkinson, Johnny Sexton must tackle his instincts

With renewed focus on concussion, there are contrasting cultures in the northern and southern hemispheres in that the approach here is to seek ‘collisions’ while the emphasis down there is to avoid ‘contact’, writes Brendan O’Brien

Fri, 19 Feb, 2016

Catch-up with what you've missed so far today with our lunchtime briefing

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Tue, 16 Feb, 2016

Catch-up with what you've missed with our morning briefing

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Tue, 16 Feb, 2016

Leinster veteran Hayden Triggs opens up on ‘scary’ concussion dangers

Leinster’s Hayden Triggs is no household name, but the veteran Kiwi lock gave an interview yesterday that should grab everyone’s attention when admitting he is “scared” by the spike in concussions and other injuries in modern rugby.

Tue, 16 Feb, 2016

Leinster record facile eight-try win over scoreless Zebre

Leinster 52 Zebre 0: They were missing a host of players to international duty, but with a total of eight tries over the course of the action, Leinster recorded a facile Guinness Pro12 victory over Zebre at the RDS last night.

Sat, 13 Feb, 2016

Leo Cullen makes 12 changes to Leinster team for Dragons encounter

With most of the province’s established stars in the Ireland camp preparing for the Six Nations, a number of younger players are being given a chance to shine in tomorrow’s PRO12 game.

Thu, 28 Jan, 2016

RC Toulon v Leinster - European Rugby Champions Cup - Pool 5 Round 3

Leo Cullen backs misfiring Leinster and Johnny Sexton to bounce back

Leo Cullen has backed Jonathan Sexton and the rest of his Leinster team to turn the corner after three European defeats that leave them all but out of the Champions Cup reckoning ahead of Toulon’s visit to the Aviva Stadium tomorrow. 

Fri, 18 Dec, 2015

Leo Cullen marks ref’s card on Steffon Armitage scrum antics

Leo Cullen has made a not-so-subtle bid to bend referee Nigel Owens’ ear ahead of their Pool 5 meeting with Toulon by referencing perceived illegalities on the part of back row poacher extraordinaire Steffon Armitage.

Sat, 12 Dec, 2015

Luke Fitzgerald backing Leinster to rise from slump

Luke Fitzgerald admits it: Leinster aren’t in a good place.

Tue, 24 Nov, 2015

Leo Cullen says Leinster need boost before Toulon tie

Bath 19 Leinster 16: The words Leo Cullen used on Saturday evening were designed to instil optimism, but the evidence is damning and the fact is Leinster’s Rugby Champions Cup ambitions are all but over for the season after just two games.

Mon, 23 Nov, 2015

The wheels coming off in Europe for Irish provinces

Four games into the Champions Cup for the Irish provinces and just a solitary win to show for our efforts. Even that was achieved at home by Munster against the tournament’s basement side Treviso. 

Mon, 23 Nov, 2015

There’s nowhere to hide for Leo Cullen’s Leinster

Win or bust. It could almost serve as the official motto for rugby’s European Cup this past 20 years such are the fine margin from the first day to the last, but rarely have Leinster found themselves in such a precarious position so early in the competition.

Sat, 21 Nov, 2015