With the new year ushered in and the sporting calendar stacked, here's a breakdown of all the major rugby events and ...

If you were to be brutally honest about the way the Investec Champions Cup is shaping this season and has done over the past ...

The depth at the Springboks betrays the situation at our franchise teams, where the quality of sides beyond their top 15 or ...

THE Dragons are without captain Angus O’Brien for their Challenge Cup qualification shootout with the Lions at Ellis Park on Saturday.

The Bulls, Sharks and Stormers will be gunning for wins in the Champions Cup, while the Cheetahs and Lions are in action in ...

South African clubs may have already blown their chances of advancing to the latter stages of the Champions Cup and ...

BBC Sport NI looks at some of the talking points from Ireland interim head coach Simon Easterby's Six Nations squad.

It promises to be a bumper year for sports tourists with options aplenty for Irish people seeking to catch a big event while ...

The England veterans admitted they were baffled by some of Gatland's selections, with Llewellyn and Gareth Anscombe among the ...

Maro Itoje replaces Jamie George as captain while uncapped Cadan Murley and Oscar Beard are named in England's Six Nations ...

"You can't just let the happiness of the win almost polyfilla over the cracks - there are still a lot of things we have to ...

Toulouse captain Antoine Dupont on Friday "questioned the logic" behind South African sides playing in the Champions Cup as ...