Rugby is a game containing many abstract lines. The offside line, the line of touch and the gainline are just some of the invisible borders that exist in rugby’s lexicon. In recent years, a new line ...

Speaking on the first episode of the Science Week podcast, rugby players Will Connors and Kathryn Dane explain how state-of-the-art computer science is being utilised in sports such as rugby. Getty ...

There are women players who never made a tackle before their first game of rugby. Not just at grassroots club matches; this has happened at international level. Being asked to use your body to ...

Objective To examine factors associated with tackles in rugby union and to assess their impact on the risk of injury. Design Two-season (2003/2004 and 2005/2006) prospective cohort design with video ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Concussion rates fell 33% in the Irish men's rugby All-Ireland League during a two-season trial period of a new law lowering tackle height, the Irish Rugby Football Union said on ...

World Rugby is encouraging its member unions to trial "belly tackles" in the community game in a bid to make the sport safer. The global governing body's executive board has recommended, subject to ...

There’s no perfect solution to facing the French talisman, but those who have done so have some advice for Ireland – stay connected and don’t take the bait On a field with 30 of the best rugby players ...

The issue of player welfare is critical in the heavy contact sport. Lero Research Ireland Centre for Software has teamed up with the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) and the Complex Software Lab at ...

Week Two of the Six Nations was dominated by the quality of rugby on display in the Ireland-France match at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday. Yet, there are dark undertones around the safety of the game ...

A disillusioned rugby lifer walks into a local pub in his small Scottish Borders hometown in 2006. But the only walks-into-a-bar joke that day is on him. For the previous 12 years, Richie Gray had ...