Jack In The Pack:Bernard Jackman
LEINSTER are now sweating over the fitness of a number of players ahead of their Heineken Cup and Pro12 finals over the next fortnight.
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Captain Charles Moore, last week’s subject, certainly repays research.
THE final placings of the domestic leagues in England, France and Ireland are starting to take shape and unlike football which is still run s a pure league format, rugby has gone down the play-off route.
There is something of the magpie in most people, that impulse to rummage around salerooms in search of items neither wanted nor needed.
THERE has been a lot of debate recently about why the provinces are getting more support than the national side.
FULL marks to Ted Walsh for being so quick to inform television viewers that Patrick Mullins had emulated his grandfather in winning the historic La Touche Memorial Cup over Punchestown’s famed banks.
I AM delighted to be able to announce that I have signed a contract with Grenoble rugby club to be their Defence and Skills coach in the Top 14 next season.
TO those who regard the annual Punchestown Festival as increasingly on a par with that Cotswolds clash in March it may seem hard to believe that it was only in 1960 that Punchestown bowed to the inevitable by introducing an all-bush fence steeplechase course.
TULLOW went down by 23-17 to Enniscorthy at a packed Portarlington on Sunday in the Towns Cup final, but we lost nothing in this defeat.
Easter is the time of celebration.