Crisis is focusing minds on AIL formatIf the current AIB League first division remains unfinished by the season's end it whereby next season's top flight could be …Tue Mar 13 2001 - 00:00
Inactive sports in need of a tonicSo that's what an apocalyptic vision of the future would hold for the sports nuts amongst us. Sporting meltdownTue Mar 06 2001 - 00:00
Future as certain as bounce of a rugby ballForecasting when the next kick-off will be, much less the outcome at full-time, is a trick in itself right now amid the current…Sat Mar 03 2001 - 00:00
Fears for England game as IRFU seeks clarificationRepresentatives of the IRFU will meet with officials from the Department of Agriculture on Monday morning to clarify the situation…Fri Mar 02 2001 - 00:00
Rearranged AIL matches postponedWhile Six Nations officials will hold a crisis conference on Friday to discuss the threat posed to the championship by the foot…Thu Mar 01 2001 - 00:00
Leinster sign three-year deal with fitness centreWhatever else the Leinster rugby team may lack in the future, it won't be off-pitch facilities after the David Lloyd Riverview…Thu Mar 01 2001 - 00:00
Late April may be chosen if game is re-fixedOfficials from the IRFU, the Welsh RFU and the Six Nations Committee will today endeavour to find an alternative date for the…Wed Feb 28 2001 - 00:00
Henry fine tunes line-up as sides prepare as normalAlthough a cloud still lingers over the Wales-Ireland game in Cardiff this Saturday, both camps continued as normal yesterday…Tue Feb 27 2001 - 00:00
IRFU must tackle clubs' concernsOnce again the clubs are cribbing, and at a time when all else in the garden is smelling so rosy, the temptation could be to …Tue Feb 27 2001 - 00:00
Rugby game in Cardiff still onThe Six Nations championship game between Wales and Ireland in Cardiff next Saturday is still set to take place despite the worsening…Tue Feb 27 2001 - 00:00
Constitution dig deep to maintain runAs a contest the plot thickened the more the match wore on, but as a spectacle it became bogged down after a bright openingMon Feb 26 2001 - 00:00
Celtic League given green lightThe oft-mooted Celtic League last night moved another step forward when the Irish, Scottish and Welsh unions issued a statement…Tue Feb 20 2001 - 00:00
What a difference a decade can makeA decade ago at home to France Mick Galwey was one of six new caps in what was a pretty decent Irish team, beaten 21-6 at Lansdowne…Tue Feb 20 2001 - 00:00
Ireland make their own luckIn the dressing-room after the game, Warren Gatland approached David Wallace and good-naturedly warned him to never kick the …Mon Feb 19 2001 - 00:00
Rules gave video ref a trying timeTheoretically, Saturday's video referee Brian Campsall had every available facility when making his decision from a specially…Mon Feb 19 2001 - 00:00
Ireland's huge leap forwardEven by the old ground's standards, Lansdowne Road witnessed a special day, in which the feel good factor lingered long after…Mon Feb 19 2001 - 00:00
Ireland prepare for frontal assaultIreland v France in February in Dublin used to have different connotationsSat Feb 17 2001 - 00:00
Maso aims to make Ireland payIreland-France games have been tempestuous affairs in the past, arguably more so at Lansdowne Road, and in advance of the latest…Thu Feb 15 2001 - 00:00
Horgan in squad as cover for HoweShane Horgan was drafted into the Irish squad yesterday as cover for Tyrone Howe after the 29-year-old Ulster winger contracted…Thu Feb 15 2001 - 00:00
Thoroughbreds add extra paceRested, refreshed and recuperated, if a little rusty, Brian O'Driscoll and Denis Hickie were duly recalled yesterday to sharpen…Wed Feb 14 2001 - 00:00
Munster semi-final fixed for LilleERC Ltd have fixed the European Cup semi-final between Stade Francais and Munster on Saturday, April 21st for Lille, about 150…Wed Feb 14 2001 - 00:00
Injury again sidelines DavidsonThere's bad luck, there's rotten luck and then there's the kind of luck Jeremy Davidson seems to get, and it certainly ain't …Tue Feb 13 2001 - 00:00
Chance lost for scrum practiceThe feeling doing the rounds is that the opening hands played by Ireland and France can be pretty much treated as a bluffer's…Tue Feb 13 2001 - 00:00
Unyielding defence brings Galwegians the pointsThey're not to be taken too seriously as championship contendersMon Feb 12 2001 - 00:00
Shannon seek to settle the scoreOnce again the clubs are, as Gerry Murphy once put it when encapsulating the frustrations of coaches up and down the country, …Sat Feb 10 2001 - 00:00
Top English clubs want to sign ByrneEmmet Byrne's stock continues to rise sharply this season and it now transpires that even before his international Test debut…Wed Feb 07 2001 - 00:00
Nice city shame about the teamAs Six Nations' venues go, Rome takes some beatingTue Feb 06 2001 - 00:00
Injured pair ready to returnBrian O'Driscoll and Denis Hickie seem likely to come back into consideration for Ireland's next Six Nations Championship game…Tue Feb 06 2001 - 00:00
Few complaints after Italian jobVeni, vidi, vici. Three games, three wins, 22 tries, 172 points scored and 12,000 Irish supporters savouring an historic Roman…Mon Feb 05 2001 - 00:00
Ireland to leave Rome with vital opening victoryOn a sun-kissed Roman morning the Irish management and captain Keith Wood sat on the steps overlooking the practice pitch they…Sat Feb 03 2001 - 00:00
Six Nations now a test site for new regulationsThey keep messing around with the jewel in the European crownSat Feb 03 2001 - 00:00
Success has ripple effect in provinceThey really are a unique bunch in many waysTue Jan 30 2001 - 00:00
Munster nine form backbonePerhaps outraged Corkonians will lead a march on 62 Lansdowne Road to have Anthony Horgan, John Kelly and Frankie Sheahan as …Tue Jan 30 2001 - 00:00
Munster battle to yet another epic victoryAnother special day to store in the Munster memory bankMon Jan 29 2001 - 00:00
Munster dig deep and prosperIt mightn't have seemed like a classic, but, as Anthony Foley said afterwards, Munster were brilliant in patchesMon Jan 29 2001 - 00:00
Munster have the fuel to keep home fires burningLast season one of Ireland's Munster contingent reflected honestly on the anticlimactic end-of-championship defeat at home to…Sat Jan 27 2001 - 00:00
Munster may be Dublin-boundWere Munster to beat Biarritz in Sunday's Heineken Cup quarter-final at Thomond Park they would have a 50-50 chance of a "home…Wed Jan 24 2001 - 00:00
O'Cuinneagain is a surprise Munster standbyThe former Irish captain Dion O'Cuinneagain is a surprise nomination - along with the Cork Constitution centre Conor Mahony - …Wed Jan 24 2001 - 00:00
Tomorrow decision day for O'DriscollA decision on Brian O'Driscoll's fitness for the opening Six Nations game against Italy in Rome on Saturday week, along with …Wed Jan 24 2001 - 00:00
O'Driscoll decision to be made on ThursdayA decision on Brian O'Driscoll's fitness for the opening Six Nations game against Italy in Rome on Saturday week, along with …Tue Jan 23 2001 - 00:00
Papal visit has been cancelledThe proposed Papal visit to the Vatican by the Irish squad for tomorrow week has been cancelled because Munster have no choice…Tue Jan 23 2001 - 00:00
O'Driscoll a doubt for RomeAlthough the extent of the injury to Brian O'Driscoll's right shoulder is not as bad as first feared, the centre's participation…Tue Jan 23 2001 - 00:00
ERC can be happy but not so cockyAn ERC official and an Irishman sat side by side on an aeroplane en route to a European Cup game last weekendTue Jan 23 2001 - 00:00
Leinster have enough in supply not to bottle itFrom a certain angle, it looked like prison groundsSat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
No hiding place for LeinsterThe point of no return, backs to the wall, facing an end to their season if they lose, away from home and coming off a potentially…Thu Jan 18 2001 - 00:00
