Person: Hugo McNeill

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Sometimes, it really does boil down to savage hunger

When I was driving back from Thurles yesterday, I was listening to the widespread coverage on RTÉ Radio 1 of Ireland’s memorable win against the All-Blacks on Saturday evening. Hugo McNeill and Eddie O’Sullivan made some really interesting points but the general thrust of their analysis was that Ireland just refused to take a backward step against the World champions, writes Anthony Daly.

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Hugo McNeill: ‘We’re part of a 70 million worldwide family of Irish people’

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On the couch with TV3 for the Rugby World Cup

Now Munster must really front up

THE last few weeks on the road across the rugby homes of Europe has been challenging to say the least.

Wed, 22 Dec, 2010

‘A sad day but it’s also one to celebrate a great man’

A BIG funeral for a giant of a man.

Fri, 08 Oct, 2010

Players hopeful of Jennings reprieve

BRIAN O’DRISCOLL and Luke Fitzgerald have both voiced their support of Leinster colleague Shane Jennings ahead of today’s appeal in Dublin against a 12-week ban imposed for eye-gouging in a recent Heineken Cup game against London Irish.

Thu, 22 Oct, 2009

Cowen takes a personal question, so why not put it to Kenny too?

Should we follow the American model of requiring the president to sit regular medical tests and of releasing the results? The BBC’s Jeremy Paxman was vilified in 2002 for asking Charles Kennedy on Newsnight what were pertinent questions about his drinking

Fri, 11 Sep, 2009

‘Ould enemy’ our new best friend

IT was a long time coming - about 800 years, give or take a few skirmishes - but Ireland’s ‘ould enemy’ is about to become our NBF, or New Best Friend.

Sat, 22 Oct, 2005

Pushing and pulling

It remains the most famous Irish try of them all. Everyone who was at Twickenham in 1982 swears the Irish pack pushed Gerry McLoughlin over the line. ‘Ginger’ sees it differently! Diarmuid O'Flynn reports.

Thu, 25 Mar, 2004