Ireland 8 England 32

Ireland 42 Argentina 20

Coach Mark McDermott has made three changes to the Ireland U21 team from the side played Argentina last week for the repeat encounter in the IRB U-21 World Championship tomorrow.

Ireland ran out convincing winners in their final game of the pool stages at the IRB Under-21 World Championship in Issoire this evening.

Ireland U21 22 Argentina U21 26

France 26 Ireland 8

France 26 Ireland 8

THE Ireland U21 team to play hosts France on the opening day of the 2006 IRB U21 World Championship shows six changes to the side that lost 40-5 to England U21 in March in the final game of the U21 6 Nations tournament.

The Ireland Under-21 team to play hosts France on the opening day of the 2006 IRB U-21 World Championship has been announced.

IRISH coach Mark McDermott yesterday announced his squad for next month’s IRB U21 World Cup in Auvergne, France.

Coach Mark McDermott will lead his Ireland U21 squad into battle at the World Cup in France next month.

THEIR senior colleagues may have struggled in Lansdowne Road and Murrayfield last weekend but neither the Irish nor the French U21s had much difficulty in recording wins over Italy and Scotland respectively.

Ireland Under-21s 34 Italy Under-21s 9

THE IRISH team to play Italy tomorrow night in the opening game of the U21 Six Nations Championship shows two personnel changes and two positional switches to the side that started and beat Leinster ‘A’ 40-12 last month.

Ireland Under 21 coach Mark McDermott has named a squad of 24 players for the opening Six Nations match against Italy in Dubarry Park, Athlone on Friday, February 3 at 7.35pm.

Mark McDermott's Ireland outfit have been draw to play hosts France, Argentina and Georgia in the pool stages of the 2006 Under-21 Rugby World Cup.

MICHAEL BRADLEY has been re-appointed Ireland ‘A’ rugby coach.

Ireland U21 34 Samoa U21 17

The Ireland Under 21 management have named the squad that will travel to Argentina to take part in the 2005 IRB Under 21 World Cup.

Seeded second by virtue of last year's runners-up finish, Ireland Under-21s have been drawn to face France, Samoa and South Africa in the opening stages of June's IRB World Cup in Argentina.

The Ireland U21 team and replacements to play against Wales U21 in Neath, on Friday March 18 at 7pm is as follows:

The Ireland U21 squad of 23 players to play against Wales U21 at The Gnoll, Neath RFC on Friday, 18th March at 19.00hrs is as follows:

The Ireland Under 21 team to play against France at Thomond Park in Limerick tomorrow has been named.

The Ireland Under 21 squad to play against France at Thomond Park on Friday at 7.30pm has been named.

Ireland U21’s 6 England U21 28

Italy Under-21s 21 Ireland Under-21s 33

Munster 27, Connacht 27

Ireland 19 New Zealand 47

MAYBE it is a marking of changing times. Or maybe it is something more positive that is creeping into the Irish sporting mindset.

AUSTRALIAN U-21 coach Chris Webb has tipped Ireland to create a World Cup shock here at Hughenden in Glasgow tomorrow. Ireland face the might of holders New Zealand and Webb refuses to dismiss Ireland's challenge.

IRELAND’S heroic U21 players took their bruised bodies to a health club in Glasgow yesterday for a brief respite after the pounding of the last couple of weeks.

THERE is a palpable level of expectation in the Irish U21 camp as they prepare to take on Australia in the IRB World Cup semi-final today.

For the third consecutive game, the Ireland Under 21 management have named an unchanged starting team to take on France in their final Pool B game in the Under 21 World Cup following wins over Tonga (43-5) and Argentina (26-22).

Ireland 43 Tonga 5

The Ireland U21 squad from which the team and replacements to play against Scotland U21 prior to the Scotland v Barbarians game on Saturday, May 22 at Murrayfield has been named.

The IRFU today confirmed the Ireland under-21 management team for the upcoming under-21 Rugby World Cup to take place in Scotland from June 11 - 27.

The IRFU today confirmed the Under 21 management team for the upcoming Under-21 Rugby World Cup to take place in Scotland from June 11 to 27.

YOU ask a girl to your graduation ball, buy her a ticket, give her a reason to get tarted and tanned, present her with posh chocolates and an orchid, tell her she looks amazing, buy her five bottles of Ritz ... then she cops off with someone else.

The Ireland U21 squad from which the team and replacements to play France U21 on Friday next in Limoges has been named.

FORMER Irish international Mark McCall has been appointed coach to the Ireland Under-21 rugby team.

The Ireland Under 21 Squad will be captained by No.8/Flanker, Steven Keogh of UCC, to take part in the IRB Under 21 World Championship, in England from June 13 to 29.

PLEASING and fulfilling as it undoubtedly is to be coach of a squad as magnificent as Munster’s, there are aspects of Alan Gaffney’s job which he could do without — such as having to tell players they aren’t required for a match as big as Saturday’s Heineken European Cup semi-final against Toulouse at the Stadium de Toulouse.

THE Irish Rugby Football Union has turned the heat back on the Government after Lansdowne Road was yesterday named as host to the 2003 Heineken European Cup final.

The IRFU has announced the management for the Ireland U21 team for the season 2002/2003.