The strategic plan identifies women’s rugby as the sport’s biggest growth opportunity.

Five games in four cities in seven days. Ireland nailing their lines and your Panini sticker album made flesh. Euro 88 was beyond a dream for this 12-year-old.

Midlands North-West seemed to take on its own time zone in the last week

David Humphries said he was not about to try and fix what wasn’t broken.

Hugo Keenan’s absence for the back end of this club season was always going to leave a hole but it is slightly less of a headache now that Jimmy O’Brien is back fit and primed to wear the No.15 jersey.

Australia forward’s deal was running out this summer.

Although part of a broader remit to grow the game, Thursday morning’s release of “Rugby in Ireland 2024 - 2028: Inspire, Connect, Thrive” places the acceleration of women’s rugby at the heart of its strategy.

Speculation over Southgate’s future has been rife heading into Euro 2024.

RTÉ's Greg Allen met the moment as much as the Irish athletes in Rome in front of him over the past week. 

Will Germany provide us with the tournament we need? 

Ten Hag’s position had been under threat after a disappointing Premier League campaign in which his side finished eighth.

Ultimately, the heavily armed police dotted around the security barriers ended up as bored observers.

Lack of facilities is having a devastating impact on the football economy

“I was hoping to play Under-20s and stuff like that and realistically you would want to be playing Six Nations and World Cups to get a contract out of it,” the Laois hurler explains.

Another bumper audience is to be expected on Saturday when Leinster face Jake White’s Bulls at Pretoria’s Loftus Versfeld in one of the weekend’s two semi-finals.

Jim Ratcliffe needs to get matters right on and off the pitch now he had decided to stick by Erik ten Hag.

One reader says that people often drown due to unexpected falls or when overestimating their abilities and underestimating the risks

He won the Masters for the second time in three years in April and heads into the US Open on the back of his fifth win of the year at the Memorial Tournament.

Gamblification is a gathering sporting storm on both sides of the Atlantic.

“Not to sound arrogant but I don’t need to state my case around here."