Thanks to the magic of youtube here are some highlights of the Australia game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuv7fWcVFwM

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Paddy Wallace will start at centre for Saturday’s big game against New Zealand. Wallace replaces Luke Fitzgerald who has had to pull out of the game due to an ankle injury. It safe to say the pressure is on New Zealand and the home crowd will be expecting an a good win to make up [...]

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Eddie O’Sullivan has announced the team which will play Italy in the opening game of the 2008 Six Nations at Croke Park. The team sees Geordan Murphy welcomed back to the starting line-up on the left wing. Eion Reddan will also start next to and in-form Ronan O’Gara. Both John Hayes and captain Brian O’Driscoll [...]

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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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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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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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