With Ireland’s world cup campaign creeping closer and closer it’s time to look into our crystal ball and see what lies ahead for Ireland on the rocky road to the world cup.
By now you should have a good idea of the pool fixtures, if not shame on you, let’s recap.
Ireland will face four teams [...]

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Doug Howlett the New Zealand winger has signed a two and a half year contract with Munster which begins on January 1st 2008. It seems Howlett is looking to experience life outside his homeland and will be moving his family to Ireland later this year. This is a great signing for Munster and I’m sure [...]

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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 made Ireland [...]

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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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