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After last season's fifth-place finish, it is testament to the work of head coach Joe Schmidt that there is an element of disappoin...

Getty Images Ireland flanker Chris Henry has revealed training has taken on a combative edge as they approach Saturday's clash agai...

Getty Images Flirting with a disastrous fall into the third tier of seeds for the 2015 World Cup, all because of their worst run for 14...

Connacht's Gavin Duffy will team up with the Ireland squad in New Zealand after Keith Earls was ruled out of the second Test. E...

Ireland utility back Keith Earls has been ruled out of the second Test against New Zealand in Christchurch with a pectoral muscle injur...

I reland inflicted a fourth successive RBS Six Nations defeat on Scotland after prevailing 32-14 at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday eveni...

Ireland scrum-half Eoin Reddan is eager to take his chance against Scotland in Saturday's Six Nations match in Dublin. Reddan h...

Declan Kidney says his Ireland team must concentrate on their own display in Sunday's Six Nations clash in Paris and not be intimid...

France full-back Maxime Medard has been ruled out of Sunday's Six Nations clash against Ireland because of injury. Medard susta...

Nineteen long days with no opportunity to put that dramatic late defeat by Wales behind them, an infuriating competitive drought descri...

Stephen Ferris says Ireland must begin the process of turning the Aviva Stadium into a fortress by clinically dispatching Italy in Satu...

There has been a change to the Ireland team to play Wales this weekend in the RBS 6 Nations Championship.  Fergus McFadden has move...