Dirty Balls

The Ireland Under-18 Schools squad, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, has been named for the Five Nations Festival which this year takes place in Llandovery in Wales.

Heated debate over the inaugural ERC15 Awards began in earnest today (Tuesday, 30 March) when a distinguished panel of rugby experts met in London to consider nominations for the awards which have been created to celebrate 15 years of European club rugby.

Tickets for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand will go on sale on Tuesday, April 27, with venue and team packs on offer to the general public.

Worcester Warriors A narrowly lost out 23-22 to Sale Jets in the A League at Heywood Road on Monday night.

Ireland’s pack leader Paul O’Connell takes us through the aftermath of last week’s RBS 6 Nations loss to Scotland at Croke Park, and switching focus to Munster’s big upcoming games against Leinster and Northampton Saints.

In a thrilling encounter at Goldington Road, Bristol slipped to a 17-16 defeat after a frustrating first half saw the visitors trail 17-3 at the break. Despite a titanic effort in the second half, including a try from Redford Pennycook, Bristol failed …

Bath Rugby Academy play a return netball match against the Royal High School first team.

Ireland’s flying winger Tommy Bowe has been announced as the 2010 RBS 6 Nations Player of the Championship, following in the footsteps of team captain Brian O’Driscoll, a three-time winner of the award.

This week on the RFU podcast, Ben Foden and Chris Ashton reflect on their Paris experiences, Rob Andrew looks to the future and Northampton Saints lift the LV= Cup

Ireland wingers Tommy Bowe and Keith Earls finished as joint top try scorers in this year’s RBS 6 Nations Championship, along with Welsh duo James Hook and Shane Williams.

Russia have been confirmed as the Europe 2 qualifier for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. They will join Ireland, Australia, Italy and the USA in Pool C.

Ireland flanker Stephen Ferris said that it was a ‘very quiet and very disappointed dressing room’ after Scotland ripped up the script and beat Declan Kidney’s men in the final game at Croke Park ‘We gave ourselves too much to do after a disappointing …

Speaking after the 23-20 defeat by Scotland, Ireland flanker David Wallace said: &quote;We’re really disappointed to lose, especially in such a tight game. We gave them too many chances to kick points and keep the pressure on us, and pull away at times…

Listen to head coach Declan Kidney and pack leader Paul O’Connell give their reaction following Ireland’s 23-20 RBS 6 Nations loss to Scotland at Croke Park on Saturday.

Listen to Scotland head coach Andy Robinson, team captain Chris Cusiter and attack coach Gregor Townsend give their reaction after their side’s hard-earned 23-20 RBS 6 Nations victory over Ireland at Croke Park.

RBS man-of-the-match Dan Parks supplied the killer finish as he kicked a 79th minute penalty to drive Scotland to a deserved win in Ireland’s final match at Croke Park.

Bristol began their play-off campaign with a hard fought victory over Cornish Pirates this evening, Iain Grieve scoring the only try of the match to see the home side take a 19-12 win.

The RFU.com podcast brings you the latest from the England camp as Martin Johnson’s side prepare for the RBS 6 Nations clash with France in Paris. With major changes in the back line, we chat to Northampton duo Chris Ashton and Ben Foden, Gloucester ce…

On Sunday 7th March over 640 children descended on to Chippenham RFC’s ground for the Bath Rugby round of the Land Rover Cup. It was a very exciting and busy day full of highs and lows. The Rugby action on the field was a very high standard with lots o…

BRISTOL suffered their first Championship defeat since October – despite scoring four tries against a committed Moseley side at Billesley Common. Final score 30-25.

In a bumper RBS 6 Nations edition we hear from Ben Youngs, Mark Cueto, Louis Deacon and Joe Worsley ahead of the clash with Scotland and England Women’s scrum half Amy Turner on England’s chances of maintaining their 100 per cent record

Bristol Rugby has been announced as winners of the Community Initiative of the Year 2010 at the 5th Annual All-Party Parliamentary Rugby Citizenship Awards.

We reflect on the RBS 6 Nations defeat to Ireland with England’s Dan Cole and Danny Care while England fans talk about their experience of watching the game in 3D