With the increasing incidence of red cards around the tackle and clear out - and subsequent suspensions becoming a real threat to player availability - the dynamics around every squad can change overnight

Some World Cup coaches have been unlucky with their out-halves - others have just got their timing wrong. Seldom has so many nations gone to bat with so many question marks over their tens

Rob Herring steadied the ship at both lineout and scrum time in the final half hour. Often an unsung hero, Herring is an excellent player and stalwart at Ulster for over a decade

Ideally located between Bordeaux, Nantes and Paris, the location of Ireland's World Cup base is hoping the green waves come calling. Simon Lewis paid a visit

The reigning world champions were really targeting 2023 as their high water mark. Under Erasmus and Nienaber they have seldom, if ever, over-promised and underdelivered

Angeles Bejar said her strike would last "until a solution is found to the inhumane and bloody hunt they are carrying out against my son with something he does not deserve", according to EFE.

RTÉ's new season includes the return of the Hidden Assets drama series, Patrick Kielty's first Late Late Show, and a strong documentary strand 

O’Gara’s spirit of adventure would have to appeal to a man who left Leinster and Ireland to become a central figure in Toulouse’s three Heineken Cup final appearances from 2003 to 2005

West Ham’s successful summer transfers, Bissouma’s revival and Kalajdzic’s well-timed Wolves comeback

It says something about the bizarre nature of this World Cup draw that four key pool games take place on the opening weekend

107-cap scrum-half Murray is 'very' happy with the place the squad, now trimmed to a tournament-ready 33, are at

The KMPG Women's Irish Open is back in Dromoland Castle with Leona Maguire leading the way for the Irish. Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek are seeking to retain their titles at the US Open and Chris Eubank Jr is looking for revenge when he take on Liam Smith again at the Manchester Arena. 

GB&I last defeated USA in 2015 and are rank outsiders again this year with all of the opposition’s ten players inside the top 20 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings

Viktor Hovland couldn’t be denied at the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club.

The Munster veteran was named in Farrell’s 33-man squad for the upcoming World Cup having passed the 100-cap mark for his country this month

Sunday's appearance at the top table for Ireland’s World Cup squad announcement was Sexton's first time in a media setting since receiving his suspension

Cian Healy’s should have been the seventh name listed when Ireland’s 33-man World Cup squad was revealed by team manager Mick Kearney, forwards first

The Leinster veteran was the most notable omission when the Ireland World Cup squad was revealed on Sunday afternoon.

We watched a great little Irish movie on the telly the other night. Called Herself, it’s a movie full of hope and ambition, recovery and friendship.

Jonathan Sexton admits that he has no-one but himself to blame for the ban that kept him sidelined for this summer’s warm-up games