Robbie Henshaw has been ruled out of Ireland's World Cup opening game against Romania.

Excitement is building among the Irish contingent in Bordeaux as they prepare to watch their side take on Romania.

We'll go score for score this afternoon, and there may be quite a few. 

Scotland kick off their Rugby World Cup campaign against South Africa in Marseille on Sunday. Here, the PA news agency sets the scene with five talking points ahead of the mouth-watering Pool B showdown at Stade Velodrome.

The Springboks fell to an opening loss to New Zealand in 2019 but regrouped and All Blacks head coach Ian Foster said they can do something similar after going down to France on Friday night.

The latest video sees the Bishopstown native visit a number of popular Cork destinations, including spots in Kinsale and Cork city

A sold-out crowd of 8,400 crammed into the Cork venue that was baked in sunshine and they saw Leinster breeze past Munster.

Ireland need a win to keep their qualification hopes alive.

Changing the name doesn’t iron out the flaws of this weekend. Two venues and, for a sport so many tell me is international, there are no non-European runners

Romania insist they will not target "world-class" Ireland captain Johnny Sexton on his comeback from almost six months on the sidelines

This time it was France who seized the moment and did more than enough to get their campaign up and running, even if they will be the first to appreciate they will need to improve.

Failure to beat Netherlands on Sunday will likely trigger an immediate end to Stephen Kenny's reign

Kolisi did the majority of his recovery in Springbok camp and took heart from the work he saw being done by his colleagues.

Gatland holds the commendable record among Wales coaches of never having lost to a Tier 2 nation. Then again, Fiji are making a mockery of such notions

Scotland go into the World Cup as dark horses having emerged as best of the rest behind the heavyweight quartet of Ireland, South Africa, France, and New Zealand

Nigh on four years already since the Springboks won their third World Cup and a fractured nation put all its problems behind it to drink in the moment

There can be no easing into the tournament for Ireland, warns James Ryan

The referee for Ireland and Romania credits McHugh, his 'sounding board, critic and crucially a friend', even going so far as to refer to him as 'grandfather'

The Corkman is well aware that this is the biggest stage of all 

England begin their campaign against Argentina in Marseille on Saturday with expectations at an all-time low after losing three of their four warm-up matches and five of their past six outings.