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CONNACHT COACH ANDY Friend remains hopeful of keeping Irish lock Quinn Roux at the Sportsground next season. The 30-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season and was not included on the list last month when Connacht named 21 players who had penned new deals. Negotiations are ongoing at the moment and …
ULSTER 24CONNACHT 26 Garry Doyle reports from Kingspan Stadium THIS WAS A superb game, one that gave us just about everything: tries, comebacks, momentum shifts and enough drama to stop us mocking the Rainbow Cup for the time being. Connacht did it the hard way, coming from behind in the second-half, ultimately collecting the points …
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Ric Flair will not be traveling to Las Vegas to be the headline act of Starrcast with The Roast of Ric Flair event according to TMZ. Flair, still at an Atlanta-area hospital, undergoes heart-related surgery today after his scheduled Friday surgery was postponed due to medical complications. Flair’s event was supposed to take place this …
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IN FRENCH RUGBY, old clichés die hard. Any week an Irish team meets a French one, you’ll read a lot about Gallic flair before being constantly reminded that we just don’t know which French side will turn up. So we’ll skip all that for once. Instead, there’s a different theme to examine. The PROD2 is …
Read More “‘I’ve seen guys spit at the ref, seen a fella head-butted 60 seconds into a game’”
Updated May 6th 2021, 8:50 AM COME ONE O’CLOCK today we’ll know the make-up of Warren Gatland’s 36-man squad for the British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa, but for now, we’re still in guesswork territory. We’ve all seen the usual predicted Lions squads doing the rounds since the Six Nations. Former Ireland players …
Read More “Tight calls could be cruel to Irish contingent as Gatland finalises his Lions squad”
Updated May 12th 2021, 8:34 AM TADHG FURLONG ENTERS the screen, sits down and pops in his wireless earphones. There’s plenty to discuss. For a start, there is his remarkably smooth return to rugby following a lengthy spell out of action. In late January Furlong played his first competitive game for 11 months. A little …
Read More “‘I’m very happy where I am’ – Furlong plays down concerns over length of new contract”
