With Teddy Thomas leaving for Stade Toulousain in the next season, Ronan O’Gara’s La Rochelle has finally found and signed a ...

Ronan O'Gara is setting his stall out ahead of the latest Champions Cup showdown between his La Rochelle side and Leinster.

Saracens have some talent in their ranks but they will revert to meat-and-two-veg rugby for the trip to Limerick while ...

He is the most hyped rugby player in the world currently and he’s 28 so he’s also not exactly a new kid on the block. And yet ...

Edge. Bite. Slog. These are the words McCarthy produces when looking ahead to the weekend. There’s no menace in the delivery.

Of Ireland’s four rugby provinces, the three in this year’s Investec Champions Cup share seven titles between them.

The four-time Champions Cup winners are looking in imperious form with the methods of the revered Springbok coach to the fore ...

Former Munster and Ireland great Ronan O'Gara has built a dynasty at La Rochelle - but what makes him so special?

Last season however, it was Leinster who came out on top, with victory in France in the group stage, followed by a ...

La Rochelle lock has proved Leinster’s nemesis during his outstanding career but is struggling with an ankle injury in ...

GARRY RINGROSE reckons Leinster are primed for a physical battle with La Rochelle after their weekly training tug of war. Leinster’s meeting with Ronan O’Gara’s troops will be their sixth ...

The clash is, on paper, a pool game but it would be mistaken to underestimate its importance as the result will define the ...