#Rugby World Cup

#Rugby World Cup

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<p>Ireland head coach Andy Farrell can help Leinster players deflated by defeats to focus on the Rugby World Cup. File picture: Brian Lawless/PA </p>

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Irish Examiner view: Club setbacks should fuel Ireland in the Rugby World Cup

Andy Farrell must now turn players' disappointment into a motivational tool to double down for victory

<p>Overconfidence is a bugbear we have witnessed all too often in Irish rugby, but the current squad’s apparent attitude that it can climb every mountain and not just any mountain, is indicative of a self-belief hitherto unseen. Picture: Dan Sheridan/INPHO</p>

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Irish Examiner view: Six Nations win was no one-off

with this year’s World Cup in France already in our sights, there was definite optimism that this time around we will leave previous and often mystifying misfires well and truly behind us

SFergus Finlay: I braved the Tomnafinnoge wood to predict the future for you

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RG Snyman celebrates with Rassie Erasmus after the game 2/11/2019

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Irish Examiner view: World Cup is the ‘golden nugget’

Robbie Henshaw dejected after the game 19/10/2019

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Ireland's World Cup planning: How to escape the cycle of boom to bust?

Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe, Eve Higgins and Stacey Flood 27/10/2021

Rugby World Cup heartbreak so raw for Ireland’s Stacey Flood

Flood's focus now is next month’s games against the USA and Japan in the RDS but the magnitude of last month’s failure demands more airtime as the IRFU goes about a review

Thu, 28 Oct, 2021

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Ireland-Wales games to see change as World Rugby promise ban on green-red kit clashes

Ireland or Wales will need to change kit if the sides meet at the 2027 Rugby World Cup in a move to help colour-blind fans

Wed, 06 Oct, 2021

Siya Kolisi lifts the Webb Ellis Trophy 2/11/2019

Siya Kolisi: ‘I remember the day I watched him beat up my mother. I get so angry but I must control myself’

South Africa’s World-Cup winning captain discusses losing himself in alcohol and strip clubs, seeing his mother’s face change from repeated beatings and his dream of emulating Richie McCaw

Wed, 06 Oct, 2021

Eimear Considine dejected after the game 25/9/2021

Eimear Ryan: The underlying anxiety in women’s sports is that any progress can be rolled back

The effectiveness of any IRFU review into Ireland's failure to qualify for the Rugby World Cup is also being questioned, given that the last one clearly didn’t work

Thu, 30 Sep, 2021

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Rugby World Cup 2023 travel reconnaissance missions to France get under way

In travel terms, Ireland have been handed a peach of a draw with matches in Bordeaux and Nantes before the business end of the pool stages takes them to Paris

Wed, 29 Sep, 2021

Sam Monaghan dejected after the game 25/9/2021

Adam Griggs: ‘Sometimes you don’t always get what you deserve in life’

Ireland women’s coach Griggs said it was heart-breaking to have their hopes of making it to the World Cup in his native New Zealand next year ended in the final play of their qualifying match against Scotland

Sun, 26 Sep, 2021

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Anthony Watson says Lions can learn from England's World Cup loss to South Africa

The Englishman faces stiff competition for a back three place in the starting side with Josh Adams, Duhan van der Merwe, and Louis Rees-Zammit all amongst the tries on tour so far

Tue, 20 Jul, 2021

Marvin Hagler and the Irish rugby connection

Marvin Hagler and the Irish rugby connection

The Ireland squad’s audience with Hagler was arranged by Limerick’s very own Brian O’Brien

Sun, 14 Mar, 2021

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