Pro 14 preview: Future uncertain but for now Leinster remain the team to beat

Gerry Thornley’s team-by-team guide as the new season gets underway

Van Graan doesn’t regret Munster tactics in loss to Leinster

Head coach says ‘currently we are not good enough at knockout rugby at this stage’

Worst sporting moment: Wales beat Ireland in Wellington - the one which really got away

Sexton left out as golden generation miss the chance of a lifetime in 2011 Rugby World Cup

Former Wales centre Matthew J Watkins dies aged 41

He won 18 caps between 2003 and 2006 before being diagnosed with pelvic cancer

Tiger Roll on course to bid for Grand National history

Gordon Elliott’s charge is a 7-1 favourite to emulate legendary stayer Red Rum to win world’s richest jumps race for third time

Six Nations 2020: Wayne Pivac’s Wales sure to challenge again

Warren Gatland has gone but the defending champions have plenty of strength in depth

Five uncapped players in Wales’ Six Nations squad

There’s a recall for Rhys Webb who last played Test rugby just over two years ago

Gloucester’s teenage winger Louis Rees-Zammit in line for Wales call-up

18-year-old has scored nine tries in 10 games for the English club this season

Wales’ Patchell and Davies to undergo surgery after World Cup exploits

Both will miss Wales v Ireland in the 2020 Six Nations at the Aviva on February 8th

Rugby World Cup 2019: Gerry Thornley’s team of the tournament

Players from six countries are represented, with five of the XV from South Africa

South Africa muscle past Wales to tee-up final against England

Rassie Erasmus’s Springboks break Welsh hearts as they take a physical last four tie

Springboks' power game looks like too much for Wales to handle

Warren Gatland could be taking charge of Wales for a final time against South Africa

Rugby World Cup: Final four set to make a splash as rain returns in force

Tokyo witnessed a downpour that never relented on Friday ahead of the semi-finals

Wales fullback Williams ruled out of World Cup semi-final against Springboks

BBC report Saracens player is also a doubt for Wales’ final game in the tournament

Blow for Wales as injury ends Josh Navidi’s World Cup

Backrow will miss Springboks semi-final after injuring hamstring during France win

Dan Biggar and Jonathan Davies in Wales XV for France clash

Outhalf Biggar passes return to play protocols with as Gatland names strongest side

Rugby World Cup: Mixed messages on high tackles doing rugby no favours

Referees are taking the brunt but coaches and players must accept responsibility also

Christian Lealiifano dropped as Wallabies and Wales name XVs

Michael Cheika hits out at World Rugby following Reece Hodge’s three-match ban

Wales restore some calm after the storm to bat away Georgia challenge

Warren Gatland’s side fly out of the blocks before a second-half battle in Toyota City

Well-scripted send-off that ticked all the right boxes for Ireland

Applause for Rory Best and Joe Schmidt’s last home game felt even sweeter with a win

Ireland go to number one with win over Wales

Ireland mark Joe Schmidt’s final game in Dublin with nine-point win

Gatland wants Wales ‘rugby-ready’ as World Cup preparations ramp up

Outhalf Rhys Patchell will get first start in 15 months against Ireland in Dublin

Johnny Sexton and Conor Murray reunited for Wales clash

Andy Farrell says players are ‘raring to go’ for final World Cup warm-up game against Wales

Warren Gatland names 31-man Wales Rugby World Cup squad

Secondrow Cory Hill selected despite being on the comeback trail from a fractured leg

Gerry Thornley: Ireland's shambolic first Rugby World Cup steps

Michael Kiernan recalls Ireland’s preparation for the inaugural 1987 competition, an event the IRFU didn't want to enter

Alun Wyn Jones set to become Wales’ most-capped player

There are 13 starters named from the Grand Slam-clinching victory over Ireland

Six Nations: Gerry Thornley’s Team of the Tournament

Our rugby correspondent also hands out the gongs for player, coach, team and try of the tournament

TV View: Wales ruin the Paddy’s weekend party

It all started badly and quickly got worse at the Principality Stadium on Saturday

Wales raise the roof to secure Grand Slam glory

Late Larmour try no consolation for Ireland as Warren Gatland wins a third Grand Slam

Six Nations 2019: all you need to know before the final round

Three sides are chasing the Championship title with Wales bidding for the Grand Slam

Gerry Thornley: Gatland and Wales primed for red-letter day

The coach and his team are proven big-game performers and Ireland have it all to do

Moriarty vows Wales won’t take a backward step

Gatland’s squad intent on sealing Grand Slam glory against last team to beat them

Five things we learned: France fall into Ireland’s traps

Referee undermines his final warning to French by refusing to follow through on it

Wales eye clean sweep after victory over injury-hit Scotland

All-conquering Welsh side close in on Grand Slam ahead of weekend Ireland showdown

Gatland: Wales were perhaps thinking about ‘that Irish game’

‘We’ve lost the second half 5-3 but we’ve shown some real character,’ said the Wales manager

Wales make it 13 in a row and eye Grand Slam date with Ireland

Nothing unlucky about it as Warren Gatland’s side hold off Scottish fightback in Edinburgh

Ospreys and Scarlets poised to merge in Welsh club overhaul

‘Project Reset’ could see new side formed in Colwyn Bay

Gareth Anscombe preferred to Dan Biggar in Wales team

‘We’ve looked really sharp and the squad are incredibly motivated to kick on’

Gatland uses Italian game to gauge his strength in depth

Matches between Wales and Italy in recent years involved a close first half followed by an Italian blow-out in the second

Finn Russell will be Scotland’s key man in Murrayfield

Gregor Townsend is right to gamble on his instinctive playmaker in Ireland clash

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