They plan to enjoy the experience, rather than be overwhelmed by it.

It’s the rivalry-turned-partnership-turned-friendship-turned-whatever-it-is-now that, for a time, transfixed Irish sport...

Jordan’s devotion to winning wasn’t always the healthiest, but there is a single-minded stubbornness in all elite sportspeople that allows them to go beyond the bounds of what is normally doable

European club rugby’s head of match officials, Tony Spreadbury was speaking earlier today.

Donnacha Ryan’s flying start to his coaching career with European finalists La Rochelle is no surprise to former Ireland team-mate Iain Henderson.

Andrew Porter could have sought comfort and refuge in the collective. He could have spoken in vague terms about the issues Leinster have had in the scrum in their last two Heineken Champions Cup games.

Farrell admitted a number of home truths have been expressed in the Munster camp

O’Gara is ready to start young La Rochelle scrum-half Thomas Berjon if his hurling glove plan to get Tawera Kerr-Barlow playing despite a fractured hand fails.

O'Gara and La Rochelle will be looking to get one over Leinster, something that Munster have failed to do so often. 

Kerry man Jack Daly sustained an ACL injury in Munster's loss to Leinster in the final regular season round of the URC last Saturday evening at the Aviva Stadium

It won't be the first time we see a Mycro glove worn on a rugby pitch, if Kerr-Barlow takes the field.

Leinster could draw level with Toulouse’s five titles this weekend and the scary thing is they are still improving - so who would win if the Toulon of 2014 played the Leinster of 2022?

'Nothing prepares you really until you walk out in front of 60,000 people in 28 degrees heat and suddenly you have massive bodies whacking into you'

Ronan O’Gara is turning to a Cork company for help getting La Rochelle scrum-half Tawera Kerr-Barlow on the pitch for Saturday’s Heineken Champions Cup final against Leinster

O'Gara acknowledged that Leinster are a very different proposition than the team his side defeated behind closed doors in last season’s European semi-final

Munster have confirmed that hooker Kevin O’Byrne will leave the province this summer and join English Championship side Ealing Trailfinders

Leinster coach Leo Cullen is still sweating on the fitness of Tadhg Furlong, James Lowe and Nick McCarthy ahead of Saturday's Heineken Champions Cup final against La Rochelle.

Details of the URC quarter-finals were confirmed today.

Every match of the final round - on Sunday, June 5 - matters.

The reactions of the two head coaches to what they had seen on Saturday night emphasised the gulf in class that currently and patently exists between these two provinces.

Leinster coach Leo Cullen wants his side to be 'braced' for anything they face against La Rochelle on Saturday afternoon in France 

Beirne continues to reeive treatment on the thigh injury that has sidelined the Ireland and Lions lock since the Six Nations campaign 

Leinster, already assured of top spot in the URC final standings, had rested their entire first XV ahead of next Saturday’s Heineken Champions Cup final

With one eye firmly on Marseille, head coach Ronan O’Gara had made 13 changes to his side - only Vito and Jonathan Danty kept their places in the starting XV

Their failure to even muster a losing bonus point in Dublin means Munster finished the regular season in sixth place but have avoided a dreaded away trip to South Africa

Andy Friend's side makes unecessarily hard work of seeing off Italians in Galway

Leinster will be presented with the URC’s new Irish Shield after today’s game at the Aviva Stadium, but what of the team that won the last interpro of the amateur era

With Leinster eyes firmly on La Rochelle and a fifth European star, Van Graan and co can scratch the itch that has nagged since 2018

Hosts cruising with 20 minutes to go on to see 24-7 lead cut to 24-21 but tense finale assures comfort of home for URC quarter-final

With just a week to go to their Heineken Champions Cup showdown, Cullen is wary of any disinformation campaign in O'Gara's media offerings

Leinster’s meeting with Munster in Dublin on Saturday may not be must-win for Leo Cullen but he insisted the derby clash was still a very big “want-to-win” game.

The head coach has handed Dylan Tierney-Martin his first start for the province

Jack O'Donoghue captains Munster from Number 8, while Leinster welcome Jordan Larmour & Ryan Baird back from injury.

Lowry and co. pack away the pain of Euro exit to focus on securing home advantage in URC playoffs

When you are a young Munster lock, the long shadows of former greats are always towering over you but Tom Ahern appears to be embracing the knowledge of heroes past and present in his efforts to make a mark in the Reds’ second row.

The straight talk of the Milk Market is badly missed but the former Munster and Ireland back-row has no regrets, only excitement watching on from the South African sidelines

The 30-year-old centre or wing suffered knee ligament damage in April 2021

Dan McFarland has selected his final match-day squad of the regular URC season to face Cell C Sharks at Kingspan Stadium on Friday (7.35pm kick-off).

The announcement was made this morning.

It seems difficult to imagine either an Ireland or Leinster line-up not featuring the 25-year-old at number 15, such has been his rise to the top of Irish rugby.

Breakout Connacht star Cian Prendergast won the Rugby Players Ireland men's young player of the year, while Eve Higgins won the women's young player award.

He intends to move into a coaching role developing the finishing skills of emerging prospects.

Despite the presence of Jones, who was Wales’ 2019 World Cup skipper and led them to the Six Nations title last year, fly-half Dan Biggar remains as skipper for the South Africa tour

CJ Stander believes the current Munster squad may not peak for another one or two years but they are capable of ending this season with the United Rugby Championship title

Wayne Barnes of England has been selected to referee Leinster's Heineken Champions Cup decider against Ronan O'Gara's La Rochelle in Marseille on May 28

The permutations for the United Rugby Championship play-offs can wait as far as Johann van Graan is concerned, all that matters to Munster is beating Leinster in Dublin on Saturday and securing a home quarter-final draw