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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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 available until Ireland’s [...]

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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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Ireland 42 - 6 Bayonne
Brian O’Driscoll has suffered a fractured sinus after being punched in the face, while the injury is not as bad as first thought the IRB have demanded the French rugby union investigate the incident. This was supposedly a friendly match between Ireland and French club Bayonne but instead resulted in five [...]

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Horgan has been included in Eddie’s 30 man world cup squad announced this morning. Horgan twisted his knee warming up for yesterday’s Scotland match. Horgan was included in the squad even though he may miss early pool matches. This was an obvious decision as Horgan will be critical to Ireland’s success in key matches after [...]

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