Month: December 2022

1. “When I moved to England, I had 15 players who were better than me. I went into the Sunderland team at 19 – that “Warren Gatland recalls his school days and David Meyler opens up: It’s the week’s best sportswriting”

CIAN HEALY HAS no lingering doubts about his fitness as he aims to win back his starting place in the Ireland front row for this “‘I wouldn’t have come back if I didn’t think I could last the pace’ — Cian Healy”

THIS YEAR’S RUGBY World Cup is only six months away, and the countdown for the tournament after that is well under way too. Japan unveiled “Here are the 12 venues Japan will use to host the 2019 Rugby World Cup”

ADS CAN BE really annoying sometimes, but sometimes you just have to give a metaphorical slap on the back to the people behind them. Case “He used to be a 10 and refused to make sandwiches — Paul O’Connell’s genesis story is absolutely brilliant”

AFTER FIFTEEN INTENSE games across seven weeks, the Six Nations Championship finally came to a close with a heart-stopper in London. Ireland have the only “The42’s big 6 Nations awards extravaganza”

WWE announced yesterday the appointment of Sarah Cummins as Senior Vice President, Consumer Products. Cummins will be responsible for overseeing the implementation of WWE’s global “WWE hires Sarah Cummins as SVP of Consumer Products”

“Recently, I was just at WWE in L.A. and they invited me back with open arms. So, who knows? 2019, you may see me as “Darren Young on a possible WWE turn: “2019, you may see me as an ambassador with the company””

CONNACHT HEAD COACH Pat Lam has been levied with an €8,000 fine for his public criticism of referee Leighton Hodges. Lam also appeared to question “Connacht coach Pat Lam fined €8,000 for referee outburst”

IRELAND AND LEINSTER star Ian Madigan says he was expecting plenty of flak if his country ultimately failed to win the Six Nations last weekend. “‘Myself and Johnny would probably have been the fall guys’ – Madigan on tense Six Nations finale”

Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO MUNSTER WERE MARKED absent from European quarter-final weekend for the first time in 17 years, and Anthony Foley is intent on making “Munster making players ‘feel the pain’ of weekends out of European action”