It can be a distracted stadium at the best of times and a Sunday midafternoon kick-off in early February, with Italy as the visitors, does not appear primed to make the Aviva all a fever. Yet it’s ...

All has changed, changed utterly. Time was when the demarcation lines in Irish squads between them and us were clearly defined. It used to go so far as the replacements being treated as secondary to ...

In a game in which Ireland had very little to gain and a lot to lose, Andy Farrell's side will head for next week’s training camp in Portugal worrying more about injuries than this performance. The ...