O2 have a new Irish Rugby advert, I haven’t seen this on T.V yet but it looks great. The advert is 40 seconds long and features some familiar Irish rugby legends.

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Eddie O’Sullivan has today signed a four year agreement which will extend his contract as the Irish coach until 2012. It seems to be odd timing for the IRFU to extend the contract with the World Cup only weeks away. I’m sure this could have been done after the World Cup, that way the IRFU [...]

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Ireland 23 – 20 Italy Ireland managed to grind out a win against Italy in Ravenhill this evening, with a flurry of tires in the last five minutes. Clearly a three point win against Italy is not the perfect scenario going into the World Cup, however credit to Italy they are a physical team who [...]

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Peter Stringer is unlikely to be fit for Fridays match against Italy. Stringer has been suffering from a back spasm and at this late stage Eddie is unlikely to risk the #1 scrum half ahead of Ireland’s first world cup game on the 9th. Stringer will attend training on Thursday night where himself and staff [...]

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Ireland v Italy 24th August – Ravenhill Eddie has announced he will put out his strongest team available, to play Italy on Friday. Most of the players still need crucial match time before their first game of the world cup on the 9th September. Due to injuries O’Driscoll, Horgan and David Wallace will not be [...]

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Mikaera Tewhata called it an unfortunate reflex, watch this video for yourself. It is clearly a targeted punch to the face of Brian O’Driscoll which seemed unprovoked by rugby standards.

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