WORLD record setting marathon runner Steve Jones will be awarded Blaenau Gwent’s highest honour. At a meeting of Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council on Thursday, January 23, councillors received a ...

Back in the 1980s, on the eve of Five Nations Championship games, members of the Irish rugby team prepared for their matches by walking into the Swan Bar on Dublin’s Aungier Street.

Simon Easterby insisted Sam Prendergast was the "right man" to help launch the champions' Six Nations title defence as he ...

Simon Easterby's men are joint-favourites with France to retain their trophy but there are problems to solve in Ireland ...

Even without Joe Schmidt’s first-choice Wallabies skipper last year Liam Wright, Kiss has rolled out a forward pack with ...

Here are some of the TV highlights in the week ahead starting Saturday, February 1, including the Six Nations, Top Guns: ...

The Reds kick-off their UK tour this weekend, this from Queensland Reds Head Coach Les Kiss has named 13 Wallabies to start ...

But in the 1980s rugby was still more or less an ... I had plenty of bitter defeats with Munster and Ireland. I played for the British & Irish Lions too. It might seem trivial by comparison ...

Every four years, a British and Irish Lions tour is still seen by many as the peak of professional rugby, with the finest ...

The opening Six Nations weekend has come and gone with plenty of British and Irish Lions hopefuls beginning to build a case ...

Harry Wilson celebrates with the Ella-Mobbs Trophy after Australia's dramatic victory over England in November Australian rugby is ... the visit of the British and Irish Lions in the summer ...

Australian rugby is "back on the tracks" before the visit of the British and Irish Lions in the summer, says Wallaby captain Harry Wilson. The sport down under has endured a turbulent period on ...