The sides face off in the last eight on Sunday. 

Ireland team manager Mick Kearney has also issued an update on Mack Hansen, Keith Earls and Robbie Henshaw.

The GAA could do, has done, worse than embrace bonus points. Twenty years in existence in the Rugby World Cup, it has decided finishing places on two occasions

As we move into the business end, the tiny margins will be the difference between winning and losing and ultimately, the difference between winning a World Cup and not

Azzurri take stock, Dupont's ready, Wallabies woe, gritty Romanians

Os Lobos secured their first ever victory at a Rugby World Cup but Fiji did enough to progress as Australia crash out.

The New Zealand view: At the Stade de France the All Blacks will enter the most hostile environment they have played in since they ran on to Ellis Park in Johannesburg last year

The loss of Mack Hansen to a calf issue and James Lowe with an eye injury is a serious concern ahead of this Saturday’s quarter-final

Ireland have been historically terrible at peaking for World Cups. This looks different

The mind games have started. Ian Foster, whose New Zealand side face Ireland in the World Cup quarters next week, has done the honours

To the Ireland brains trust, successes are merely stepping stones, further opportunities for growth and development

Three times Arsenal had beaten Manchester City during Pep Guardiola's seven years in charge. They were all at Wembley in the FA Cup and Community Shield

With Chelsea and Manchester United still in the wilderness, it’s fair to say that it still feels like a two-horse title race in the long term

Players removed if in-play data shows collision forces too high

Whatever the thinking was about their pre-match hype, Scotland were left with egg on their face

Ireland's Polish community will be paying close attention to the outcome of an election in their mother country

'He’s the last man to leave the team room every night, he’s down drinking tea whether it be with the young lads or begging me to come down with him'

They have delivered a shift in attitude. Now they expect to keep winning.

Ireland are leaning on the lessons learned in that successful southern hemisphere jaunt ahead of another meeting with the All Blacks, this time in the last eight of the World Cup

Ireland are waiting for the medical bulletins on a string of injured players ahead of this Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against New Zealand