SHANE LOGAN’S POOR TACTICS May 31, 2018 FOR BIG rugby clubs facing into a World Cup season, this is an important time but Ulster Rugby, where chief executive Shane Logan... Read more »
HEASLIP AND VAN DER FLIER May 31, 2018 INTERESTING to see a firm called Abbey International Finance (AIF) pumping over €2m into the operation behind the flavoured water brand Coco Fuzion100.... Read more »
AFTER PADDY JACKSON AT ULSTER May 3, 2018 DESPITE THE successful stage management by the IRFU of the “joint Ulster Rugby and IRFU” Jackson/Olding contract review, Ulster Rugby’s grim tide has... Read more »
The Chronicles of Jamie Heaslip April 5, 2018 Former Irish Rugby captain Jamie Heaslip must have been delighted with the send-off he got at the Aviva last weekend at Leinster’s Champions... Read more »
BLAZERS GET DOUBLE-TEAMED April 5, 2018 SOME WRINKLES to the IRFU’s annus mirabilis have begun to appear with the official arrival in Dublin of the players’ organisation, International Rugby... Read more »
Grand Slam media battle kicks off March 22, 2018 THE RECENT spat between the IRFU and the rugby writers’ group (see The Phoenix 23/2/18) has focused attention on the battle for dominance... Read more »
Joe Schmidt’s tactics February 22, 2018 THE long-standing love-in between the IRFU and rugby journalists reportedly came to an abrupt end a fortnight ago when Irish coach Joe Schmidt... Read more »
INJURY TIME FOR THE IRFU February 8, 2018 EUPHORIA after Stade de France but the storm clouds are gathering for Irish rugby as its ability to hold onto the best players... Read more »