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Posted 770 days ago
It was officially confirmed today that Munster’s Alan Quinlan will retire from professional rugby at the end of the current season.
Quinlan, who will shortly celebrate his 37th birthday, confirmed the news today at Munsters weekly media briefing at the University of Limerick ahead of their Magners League game against Scarlets.
The Clanwilliam clubman, named in the squad for the Scarlets game,…
Posted 781 days ago
Leinster threw away an 11-point half-time lead to lose 23-24 to Munster at Thomond Park on Saturday night. The visitors had looked the far more dangerous team in the first half, with Shane Horgan scoring the only try of the match, and their defence held firm in the second to prevent Munster crossing the whitewash. But the hosts came out firing…
Posted 781 days ago
Munster and Ireland talisman Paul O’Connell was forced to leave the pitch early in the second half of the Magners League game against Leinster on Saturday night with an ankle injury. The second-row was assisted off the pitch, obviously in considerable pain, and the province confirmed that he was taken straight to Limerick Regional Hospital for x-rays.
Those x-rays revealed he…
Posted 781 days ago
Munster coach Tony McGahan praised his side’s attitude and spirit on Saturday night having watched them come back from an 11-point deficit at half-time to defeat Leinster 24-23 in the Magners League.
The first half went the way of the visitors as Shane Horgan, who was making his 200th appearance for Leinster, scored the game’s only try. The teams went in…
Posted 782 days ago
Munster go into Saturday evening’s provincial derby clash as 4/7 favourites to beat in-form Leinster according to Ladbrokes. The Thomond Park showdown will be a chance for redemption for the Munster men who have been on the end of a Leinster beating in the last 5 meetings. Despite their top form in the Heineken Cup and Magners League, Leinster are…
Posted 790 days ago
CARDIFF BLUES welcome back Six Nations players for crunch match The Blues take on Munster on Friday at 7.05pm kick off at the Cardiff City Stadium, as they return to Magners League action, with their only defeat in their last six league matches a 13-32 loss against Ulster in February.
Munster have lost only one Magners League encounter since November so…
Posted 818 days ago
AN EARLY exit from Ireland’s summer tour Down Under proved to be the ideal tonic for David Wallace. The flanker returned home to Ireland for the birth of his second son, Harvey, missing the Test against Australia as a result.
But the five-week break from the game also gave him some respite from an ongoing back injury, and left him feeling fit…
Posted 826 days ago
EDINBURGH INTERIM head coach Nick Scrivener today called for a “significant improvement” in how his team perform the fundamentals of their game as the capital club prepare to face Munster in the Magners League at Thomond Park on Friday. Scrivener has encouraged his men to take a leaf out of the Irish side’s book in terms of the efficiency and…
Posted 827 days ago
THE LEINSTER squad continued their preparations ahead of Saturday evening’s Magners League clash against the Cardiff Blues in Cardiff City Stadium (KO: 6.30pm) with a training session in University College Dublin (UCD).
Shane Horgan is continuing his rehabilitation on the knee injury this week, which was sustained in the away victory over Racing-Métro in January, and a further assessment will be…
Posted 835 days ago
It’s 8.30 in the evening, and Ronan O’Gara can finally put his feet up, writes Bea Asprey. These days, after a hard training session, it’s straight home to help look after the kids – two-year-old twins Molly and Rua, and six-month-old JJ. These arrivals have given O’Gara an escape from rugby that he didn’t have before – as soon as…
