Centre Max Llewellyn, plus props Corey Domachowski and Keiron Assiratti will make their Test debuts on Saturday.

The Welsh game has spent 2023 in crisis off the field.

The 31-year-old Senegal forward spent just a single season in Germany having moved to Bayern from Liverpool last summer and now departs for a reported £34million.

After achieving something significant with Munster, Beirne is now ready to fight for more success with Ireland.

Dublin City Council have invited the public to welcome the team home with a public reception taking place this Thursday evening, 3rd August.

The imposing lock made his Springbok debut against Australia in Pretoria earlier this summer.

There may have only been one true classic from the season's 64 games but there remains plenty to digest from the 2023 season

The centre-back for Liverpool and the Republic was not chosen as part of Vera Pauw’s squad for the tournament in Australia and New Zealand after being unable to recover in time from an unspecified injury.

An All-Star in 1980 and ’81, Cooney started the following year’s final when Offaly beat Galway and his last senior inter-county game came against Kilkenny in the 1983 All-Ireland semi-final.

Twenty-one years on from the most spectacular fall-out in Irish sport, the other side of the world again staged an unsightly fracture tainting what the women’s equivalent had salvaged from their tournament

The Springboks face Argentina in Buenos Aires this Saturday. 

Sexton will miss the three warm-up games against Italy this Saturday, England and Samoa.

There’s no doubt that the whole No.10 topic is a headache, however. 

With a month of warm-up Tests looming, significant unanswered questions hang over several nations

The Lionesses had too much for China in Adelaide.

Fergal O’Shea, who ironically is a former archaeologist, now has his sleeves rolled up ready to launch into another project in Galway Bay.

The Dutch had scored only once in each of their two previous games but, knowing goal difference could decide the group winners, they put seven past Vietnam.

The United States won only one game in in the group stage for the first time in tournament history.

The 36-year-old Galway native may decide to go out on the high of a World Cup appearance.

The Sarsfields man won an All-Ireland medal and was later at the centre of the Clare-Offaly All-Ireland semi-final replay controversy in 1998.