The 2016/17 campaign may have reached a conclusion on Saturday but the problems for Leinster and Ireland continue to mount ahead of next season after Garry Ringrose (pictured) was...
Leinster will play three pre-season friendly fixtures this August, two of which will be played at home.
Girvan Dempsey lands back in Dublin tomorrow, and then kicks off with Leinster again on Tuesday as they take a different approach to their pre-season: a little bit here, another little bit there.
Any Leinster fans who have been getting up early to catch a glimpse of their incoming Kiwi signing James Lowe in Super Rugby will already be excited.
He isn't involved in either the Lions or Irish tours this summer but Jamie Heaslip is keeping himself...
It's interesting that in a full weekend of competitive and uncompetitive matches, none of the teams sitting on top of the table in the Guinness...
Leo Cullen will remain on as Leinster head coach for the next two years, the province has confirmed.
Leinster are still reeling from last Friday's shock loss to the Scarlets at the RDS but the full affect of...
Shane Horgan has brushed aside any suggestions that the ongoing Leinster coaching contract impasse contributed to their Guinness PRO12 semi-final...
THERE are the characters in the game that make the workplace better for their presence.
They must be getting used to introspective summers at Leinster's base in UCD.
Neil Francis has questioned whether some Leinster players are too concerned with 'celebrity' after last Friday's shock PRO 12 semi-final defeat to the...
Since 2010 when the Guinness PRO12/Celtic League returned to the knockout format fo the season finale, Leinster had (prior to last weekend)...
AS they had done against Clermont in the semi-final of the Champions Cup, a well below par Leinster side could not recover from a disastrous start to...
As he trudged into the RDS press room following another semi-final defeat, the disgust that was etched across Isa Nacewa's face suggested that the veteran knew he wasn't going to get too many...
Back in 2009, Leinster had decisions to make. They looked around, saw the talent and potential they had and then looked at their trophy cupboard...
Sunday Times columnist Stephen Jones fired a jab at Leinster and Irish Rugby after Leinster's season came to a halt on Friday evening when the...
Leinster Head Coach Leo Cullen has said that it was 'hard to fathom' his side saving their worst performance of the season for Friday's PRO 12...
The script was written before a ball was even kicked but no one told the Scarlets as their 14 men ripped up the history books and stunned Leinster to advance to next week's Guinness PRO12 final.
Leo Cullen was left to rue his side's sloppy defensive errors as 14-man Scarlets dumped Leinster out of the Guinness PRO12 semi-final and denied them a chance at avenging last season's final defeat.
There are two ways to look at the task of playing Leinster away in a Guinness PRO 12 semifinal: either it’s a challenge that motivates you or one that...
Leinster will take on the Scarlets at the RDS this evening as Leo Cullen's side look to become the first Irish side to book a place in the Pro 12 final. After losing comprehensively to Connacht in last year's...
Leinster flanker Sean O'Brien is a late withdrawal from tonight's PRO12 semi-final against the Scarlets at the RDS after suffering from a tightness in his calf.
Last week, Stuart Lancaster got his first proper glimpse of James Ryan since he arrived at the province and the early impression from a coach who knows a thing or two about nurturing...
Regardless of what happens tonight against the Scarlets this is my last diary entry of the season and it's safe to say that it has flown by: 22 rounds of the Guinness PRO12 and eight games in the...
There have been enough signs this season to suggest that Robbie Henshaw and Garry Ringrose will be Leinster and indeed Ireland's first-choice centre partnership for many years to come, but it is...
Back in the winter of 1940, a future force of Leinster club rugby was born. Terenure College RFC have grown to become the envy of clubs across the country, but decades ago, they too, like any...
For the second time in its almost 150-year history Carlow Rugby Club is to have a lady at the helm as club president.
Every season on European final weekend, whether you performed well in the campaign or not, as a team, you always regret watching the decider...
Leinster continue to establish a benign democracy on the field by maintaining a ruthless dictatorship off it.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 will forever be a special date for eight young men of Leinster, as they had their formal graduation from the Leinster Rugby Academy. Adam Byrne, Peadar Timmins, Tom...
LEO Cullen dropped the tallest man in Irish rugby for Leinster's semi-final clash with Scarlets at the RDS tomorrow and some may feel he offered the...
All this week in UCD they scurry over and back the short trek to the RDS for summer exams; from Pliny to Pythagoras, Politics to Philosophy, testing times will unveil ruthless results.
Mike McCarthy will not be joining Narbonne this summer after he was forced to end his playing career prematurely due to an elbow injury.
All choices demand a rejection. The admission price for progress.
Leinster Rugby have said that last month's floodlight failure against Glasgow at the RDS was due to 'an extraordinary failure' with one of the stadium's...
Rob Kearney and Jamie Heaslip remain unavailable for Leinster's Guinness PRO 12 championship semi-final against the Scarlets at the RDS this Friday...
With only three weeks to go in the season, it seems like a good time to look back on the progress of a young man taking his first steps at Leinster Rugby HQ. And on a glorious sunny morning in UCD it...
Leinster captain Isa Nacewa has urged his team-mates to use the disappointment of their Champions Cup semi-final defeat to their benefit in next Friday's Guinness PRO12 last-four clash against...
The Scarlets were sent packing the last time they came to the RDS two months ago but Leo Cullen is refusing to read too much into that hammering as his side get set to welcome the Welsh outfit...
The four provincial U-18 girls squads came together recently to play in the first of three Sevens tournaments.
Community is the ethos coursing through the pores of Seapoint Rugby Club.
I won't lie. It took me a while to start writing this column, which will be the last one I write in my capacity as a professional rugby player. I wrote my first entry back in 2011, prior to the World...
Sometimes you might have to go back to go forward and in Leinster's case, the hope is that this is indeed true.
Isa Nacewa has plenty of regrets about losing to Clermont Auvergne in Lyon last month and his own role in the defeat.
Should Isa Nacewa decide to pursue a future career outside rugby, recruitment might well suit him.
On Sunday night, Joey Carbery added the Guinness PRO12 Young Player of the Year award to his burgeoning collection of honours, but the...
In most people's eyes, Saturday's outing against Ulster was a nothing match for Leinster who travelled north knowing their home semi-final was already secured and with a clear two-week run-...
For all of Leinster's shortcomings last season, it's easy to forget how disrupting the World Cup period was.
It has certainly been a busy last month with Leinster but it's what we wanted. We missed that buzz last season when knockout games in Europe were not an option. So the buzz around the...
![Ciara Mageean: ‘I’m running for me, and I’m running for Jerry [Kiernan], and I’m running for my parents and for everybody in Portaferry and Ireland. And I want to do that honestly’. Photo: Sportsfile](http://cdn-04.independent.ie/incoming/article35980839.ece/6a7bd/AUTOCROP/w65square/7tough.jpg "Ciara Mageean: ‘I’m running for me, and I’m running for Jerry [Kiernan], and I’m running for my parents and for everybody in Portaferry and Ireland. And I want to do that honestly’. Photo: Sportsfile")
