Shane Mcgrath

They had been warned. Ronan O'Gara had used his newspaper column yesterday morning to predict the type of challenge Castres brought to Stade Pierre-Fabre last night.

Counting the physical cost is the brutal but straightforward part of the Munster post-mortem following Friday night's defeat in Castres.

Ellen Blehein speaks of the deep love she and her husband Rob have for Inchicore. They bought a house in the Dublin suburb in 2021 and quickly made

Between his playing career at club and Test level, and his enormously ambitious coaching crusade so far, Ronan O'Gara has seen more of the professional game than just about anyone else.

Caelan Doris lauded a phenomenal Leinster defensive effort after a famous win away to La Rochelle – a victory that leaves them primed to reach the knock-out stages of the Champions Cup as one of the tournament's top seeds.

Given his role in turning Ireland into the best team in the world for a spell, it may seem obtuse to pick a Leinster performance as the most satisfying distillation of the talents of Jamison Gibson-Park.

The problem was that barely had the final whistle sounded on Munster's loss to Northampton than Sam Prendergast produced enough in Leinster's riotous victory

We go again. Medals have been given out. Team holidays seem a distant memory now as players are flat out in the gym, tearing up the fields

When Simon Easterby fell down and stayed down, Mark Jones knew there was a problem. Easterby always got up.

The opening round of the league has come and gone, but did we learn anything we didn't already know? Dublin looked very impressive.