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United Rugby Championship, Round Five: Match officials, kick-off times and how to watch details confirmed
The United Rugby Championship season reaches Round Five this weekend and there’s two games on Friday before six…
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Tadhg Furlong cited after testicle grab allegation as Nations Championship participation in doubt
Ireland and Leinster star Tadhg Furlong has been cited after he allegedly grabbed the testicles of Munster’s Gavin…
#NewsBeep #News #Rugby #HomePage #Internationals #Ireland #Leinster #Munster #NationsChampionship #rugby #Sports #TadhgFurlong #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/814789/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/751503/ Citing official set to trigger disciplinary case after Gavin Coombes allegations – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #LeinsterRugby #MainNews #MainNews #MunsterRugby #News #TopStories #TopStories #UlsterRugby #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/africa/489148/ Double World Cup-winning Springboks star returns home to South Africa after Japan contract ‘terminated’ #Africa #Bulls #HomePage #internationals #Japan #KwaggaSmith #news #SouthAfrica #UnitedRugbyChampionship
London Irish aim for 2027 return
LONDON Irish are set for a return to professional rugby following a successful takeover by Gamechanger Investments Limited,…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #Championship #GreatBritain #london #LondonIrish #Premium #Primary #Rugby #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1272996/
Stormers v Scarlets: Five takeaways as future Springboks combination debuts in ‘utterly mad’ 92-point epic
Following the Stormers’ 52-40 victory over the Scarlets at the DHL Stadium, here are our five takeaways from…
#NewsBeep #News #Rugby #FEATURES #HomePage #rugby #Scarlets #SouthAfrica #Sports #Stormers #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedRugbyChampionship #Wales
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/749922/ Gavin Coombes’ allegation his testicles were grabbed against Leinster to be investigated – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #ClaytonMcmillan #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #GavinCoombes #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #LeinsterRugby #MainNews #MainNews #MunsterRugby #News #TopStories #TopStories #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1272408/ Stormers v Scarlets: Five takeaways as future Springboks combination debuts in ‘utterly mad’ 92-point epic #Features #HomePage #News #Rugby #Scarlets #SouthAfrica #Sports #Stormers #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedRugbyChampionship #Wales
https://www.europesays.com/ie/749552/ Leinster v Munster live updates: Follow the action as old rivals go head to head – The Irish Times #Éire #IE #Ireland #LeinsterRugby #MunsterRugby #Sports #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/ie/748925/ Tries aplenty as Connacht secure bonus-point win over Zebre – The Irish Times #ConnachtRugby #Éire #IE #Ireland #Sports #UnitedRugbyChampionship
URC result: Edinburgh overrun Lions in Scotland
The Lions struggled against Edinburgh in Scotland, but with them still dealing with the tragic loss of a…
#Edinburgh #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Scotland #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #GreatBritain #Lionsrugbyteam #UnitedRugbyChampionship
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1270963/ URC result: Edinburgh overrun Lions in Scotland #Britain #Edinburgh #GreatBritain #LionsRugbyTeam #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1270749/ Cardiff v Sharks: Five takeaways as visitors overcome early loss of Springboks star to clinch win while Wales ace ’empties the tank’ for hosts #Britain #CardiffRugby #Features #GreatBritain #HomePage #News #Sharks #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedRugbyChampionship #Wales
https://www.europesays.com/ie/747578/ ‘There could be carnage in Dublin’: Ian Madigan and Alan Quinlan on Leinster v Munster – The Irish Times #AndyFarrell #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #ClaytonMcmillan #DanSheehan #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #Ireland #IrelandRugby #JamisonGibsonPark #JoeyCarbery #LatestNews #LatestNews #LeinsterRugby #LeoCullen #MainNews #MainNews #MunsterRugby #News #RonanKelleher #TopStories #TopStories #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/ie/746369/ Leinster’s Sam Prendergast injured for Munster clash as Dan Sheehan starts at number eight – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #ConnachtRugby #DanSheehan #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #LeinsterRugby #MainNews #MainNews #MunsterRugby #News #SamPrendergast #TopStories #TopStories #UlsterRugby #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/ie/745965/ A year after Munster humbled Leinster, the much-changed foes are ready to battle again – The Irish Times #AvivaStadium #ClaytonMcmillan #Éire #IE #Ireland #JackCrowley #LeinsterRugby #LeoCullen #MunsterRugby #Sports #TomFarrell #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/ie/744840/ Gordon D’Arcy: The season has properly started now – let’s see who can keep momentum going – The Irish Times #ChallengeCup #ChampionsCup #ClaytonMcmillan #ConnachtRugby #Éire #IE #Ireland #LeinsterRugby #MunsterRugby #RichieMurphy #SamPrendergast #Sports #StuartLancaster #UlsterRugby #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/africa/480410/ Ulster ‘understand the challenge’ that awaits in South Africa – The Irish Times #SouthAfrica #UlsterRugby #UnitedRugbyChampionship
Ex-Ireland coach’s verdict on World Rugby’s ‘striking feature’ problem after Leinster ‘taken to the woodshed’
Former Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan has given his verdict on seeing Leinster’s all-international front-row getting taken to the…
#Ireland #IE #Europe #Europa #EU #EddieO #Homepage #Internationals #ireland #Leinster #News #SouthAfrica #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/3303435/
https://www.europesays.com/3303435/ Ex-Ireland coach’s verdict on World Rugby’s ‘striking feature’ problem after Leinster ‘taken to the woodshed’ #EddieO #HomePage #Internationals #ireland #Leinster #News #SouthAfrica #UnitedRugbyChampionship
Ex-Ireland coach’s verdict on World Rugby’s ‘striking feature’ problem after Leinster ‘taken to the woodshed’ https://www.byteseu.com/2441715/ #EddieO #HomePage #Internationals #Ireland #Leinster #News #SouthAfrica #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/ie/729558/ Leinster live up to the occasion of long-awaited homecoming to blow Cardiff away – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #LeinsterRugby #MainNews #MainNews #MatchReport #News #TopStories #TopStories #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/ie/729512/ Ulster overcome slow start to claw back draw against Munster – The Irish Times #Éire #IE #Ireland #MatchReport #MunsterRugby #Sports #UlsterRugby #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/ie/728590/ Glasgow v Connacht: Five takeaways as Irish ‘mauled to death’ and Bundee Aki suffers another ‘lippy’ outburst #Connacht #Éire #features #GlasgowWarriors #HomePage #IE #Ireland #News #Sports #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1246270/ Glasgow v Connacht: Five takeaways as Irish ‘mauled to death’ and Bundee Aki suffers another ‘lippy’ outburst #Britain #Connacht #Features #Glasgow #GlasgowWarriors #GreatBritain #HomePage #News #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/ie/728246/ Poor discipline costly for Connacht in Glasgow defeat – The Irish Times #ConnachtRugby #Éire #IE #Ireland #Sports #UnitedRugbyChampionship
Ex-Ireland coach’s verdict on World Rugby’s ‘striking feature’ problem after Leinster ‘taken to the woodshed’
Former Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan has given his verdict on seeing Leinster’s all-international front row getting taken to…
#NewsBeep #News #Rugby #AU #Australia #EddieO #HomePage #Internationals #Ireland #Leinster #SouthAfrica #sports #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/921980/
Stormers vs Sharks at DHL Stadium: City announces transport plan for 40 000 fans
The DHL Stormers kick off their United Rugby Championship (URC) home campaign against the Hollywoodbets Sharks at DHL…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #DHL #capetown #cityofcapetown #DeutschePost #dhlstadium #dhlstormers #Recommended #SArugby #UnitedRugbyChampionship
https://www.europesays.com/germany/106273/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/723943/ ‘I’m a young buck still’: Joe McCarthy on becoming a senior figure at Leinster – The Irish Times #DanSheehan #Éire #IE #Ireland #JamesRyan #JoeMcCarthy #LeinsterRugby #rds #RugbyWorldCup #Sports #TadhgFurlong #UnitedRugbyChampionship
England greats snub Super Rugby teams in top 10 list
England greats Ben Youngs and Dan Cole have rubbished the quality of Super Rugby Pacific, with not a…
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Great performance from #Munster, especially Charlie O'Shea, to beat the #Bulls 26-22.
#MUNvBUL #UnitedRugbyChampionship
#Connacht 15 #Stormers 29.
Stormers flattered a bit by the margin, but Connacht made far too many errors
#UnitedRugbyChampionship
First match of this year's #UnitedRugbyChampionship and first look at the impressive new stand at the Sportsground in Galway.
#Connacht second best to the #Stormers at the moment though.
So with 12 minutes to play, it's #Leinster 68 #Ospreys 7 Can Leinster cling on for the win? #UnitedRugbyChampionship
Now #Connacht versus #Munster in the #UnitedRugbyChampionship. Should be tasty!
Lions Rampant. Bulls Dormant. #BULvLIO #UnitedRugbyChampionship
What better way to celebrate the #IrishPresidentalElection result than by watching #Munster versus #Connacht in the #UnitedRugbyChampionship?
#Leinster 14 #Munster 31 Well played Munster! But what has happened to Leinster this season? #URC #LEIvMUN #UnitedRugbyChampionship
Lots of errors and yellow cards but #Munster versus #Edinburgh was fun to watch and had an exciting ending. It finished 20-19 but would have been more comfortable had Munster not missed 4 conversions. #URC #Unitedrugbychampionship
I have to say #Benetton is a very dirty team.
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#CONBEN
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Settling down to watch Connacht versus Ben Elton in the #UnitedRugbyChampionship.
Terrible first game of the #URC for #Leinster: 30-0 down against #Stormers - and have to play the last 10 minutes with only 13 men. #UnitedRugbyChampionship
Leinster – 2025 United Rugby Champions!
Photo Credit ©INPHO/Ben BradyThe 2024/5 United Rugby Championship ended today with a convincing win by Leinster over the South African team Vodacom Bulls (who are based in Pretoria). The game was played this evening in torrential rain at Croke Park; Leinster emerged victorious in the inclement conditions by 32-7.
Leinster have had a habit of being front-runners in the league part of this competition, only to fall in the knockout stages. I was a bit concerned that this year might follow the same pattern, as the Bulls have had considerable success agains Leinster over the years and Leinster failed to perform against Northampton in the European Champions Cup in a game they were expected to win. It was also a blow that one of their best players, scrum-half Jameson Gibson-Park was withdrawn from the squad this morning owing to injury. In the end, however, it wasn’t even a very close game, Leinster’s defence proving so solid that the Bulls could penetrate it only once.
The last time Leinster won the United Rugby Championship – way back in 2021 – it wasn’t even called the United Rugby Championship: it was called the Pro14, although two teams were not able to play that year because of Covid-19 restrictions so there were only 12 teams in it. The incorporation of four South African teams (Bulls, Stormers, Sharks and Lions) increased the number of teams to 16 and made it a much more difficult competition. I still think it is too long, though. The games featuring the Irish teams in this competition (Leinster, Munster, Connacht and Ulster) are broadcast free-to-air on television here and I watch quite a few of them. There are 16 teams in this competition, divided into four pools of four: each side plays the 15 others once, and an additional game against the other three in their pool, meaning 18 games per team. After 18 rounds, all that happens is that the bottom eight in the league table are eliminated and the top eight go into the knockout stage. Eighteen games is a long slog when all it does is eliminate half the teams, and it means that there’s much less at stake in individual matches. Still, now the Six Nations is over I’ll be watching the URC for the rest of the season, starting next weekend.
Well played #Leinster, #URC Champions! It wasn't even close. #UnitedRugbyChampionship #LEIvBUL
Six Nations Rugby
Yesterday I watched the last round of matches in this years Six Nations rugby Championship so, as I did last year, I thought I would do a quick summary of the games and the competition as a whole.
In the first game yesterday, thanks largely to their own errors, Ireland struggled to beat a spirited Italian side in Rome 17-22. That put them briefly top of the table, but with fewer bonus points and a worse points difference than either England or France so needed both those teams to lose in order to win the Championship. Hope of that happening vanished quickly when England scored a try about 2 minutes into their game against Wales in Cardiff, quickly followed by another. England thereafter ran riot and won 68-14 taking them to the top. England did play well, but Wales were very poor. To be honest, I found the game a bit painful to watch. If it had been boxing the referee would have stopped the fight. Memories of the great Welsh teams of the past are very distant nowadays. It’s hard to see where they go from here, with their second successive Wooden Spoon.
Then it was time for the finale, France versus Scotland. I did think that France would win easily but Scotland gave it a good go, and were unlucky not to take a lead into half-time. They wilted in the second half, however, and France duly picked up a bonus point win and the Championship. They are worthy winners, and all credit to them.
(The atmosphere at the Stade de France last night was so raucous that I had difficulty hearing the commentators over the crowd noise. I find commentators rarely add much to the experience, so this isn’t a complaint. In fact, I think it would be good if TV broadcasts allowed the viewer to turn off the commentary but keep the sounds from the stadium.)
The only game France lost was against England on a rainy day at Twickenham on 8th February, a game I watched. France should really have won that game but made a ludicrous number of mistakes and lost by a single point at the death. But for that Les Bleus would have had a Grand Slam. Fair play to England for hanging on and showing great resilience. After an unconvincing start as the competition went on they got better and better, though they needed a slice of luck to beat Scotland 16-15 as Finn Russell missed a conversion that would have won the game.
Up until last week the only team able to do a Grand Slam was Ireland, but they were outplayed in Dublin by France who won 42-27. Sports journalists have a habit of seeing everything as either a triumph or a disaster, and the Irish media portrayed that as the latter. The way I see it is that Ireland’s rugby team reached a high-water mark with their Grand Slam two years ago since when a number of important players have retired. It’s been a time for reconstruction and rebuilding. This is the way of things. I remember Ireland beating France comfortably last season, but France came back strongly this year. At least Ireland collected another Triple Crown, beating England, Wales and Scotland.
After last night’s game I was reflecting on why I enjoy the Six Nations so much. I think it’s mainly because there are relatively few games so each one takes on a significance, either in the context of the Championship or because it represents a longstanding rivalry (e.g. the Calcutta Cup). The point is that there is real jeopardy attached to many of the games. Contrast this with the United Rugby Championship. The games featuring the Irish teams in this competition (Leinster, Munster, Connacht and Ulster) are broadcast free-to-air on television here and I watch quite a few of them. There are 16 teams in this competition, divided into four pools of four: each side plays the 15 others once, and an additional game against the other three in their pool, meaning 18 games per team. After 18 rounds, all that happens is that the bottom eight in the league table are eliminated and the top eight go into the knockout stage. Eighteen games is a long slog when all it does is eliminate half the teams, and it means that there’s much less at stake in individual matches. Still, now the Six Nations is over I’ll be watching the URC for the rest of the season, starting next weekend.
#England #France #ireland #Italy #Scotland #SixNations2025 #UnitedRugbyChampionship #URC #Wales
Nu har vi sett Leinster rugby vinna sin match mot Stormers och nu hoppas jag att Munster vinner sin match mot Dragons! Mumhan abú! #unitedrugbychampionship
A tough trip for connachtrugby ahead, rd3 of the @urc is upon us and @scarlets_rugby won't be an easy place to go
But an unchanged pack with the return of Bundee, Jack, and continued bench impact will have a huge bearing on keeping the performance level up and hopefully another win.
#SCAvCON #URC #UnitedRugbyChampionship #URCgo #Connacht #ConnachtRugby #IrishRugby #FrontUpRiseUp #FURU #StrongerInGreen
Ok, well this promises to be a high scoring match. #rugby #UnitedRugbyChampionship #URC #MUNvOSP
Is it me, or is one of the flamethrowers at Thomond Park not working? #rugby #UnitedRugbyChampionship #URC #MUNvOSP
Dispersi nel fiume Natisone, chi sono i tre giovani travolti dalle acque
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The moment when a player realizes they’ve outrun the defenders, and are going to score a try is always fun to watch: #rugby #URC #UnitedRugbyChampionship #LEIvCON
Well that was an atrocious clearing kick from Connacht… #rugby #URC #UnitedRugbyChampionship #LEIvCON
All three of Leinster’s tries have just been them muscling right through Connacht’s defense. Impressive stuff. #rugby #URC #UnitedRugbyChampionship #LEIvCON
What? That was ridiculous! Try Leinster! #rugby #URC #UnitedRugbyChampionship #LEIvCON
Damn the bounce on that kick was something. #rugby #URC #UnitedRugbyChampionship #LEIvCON
I think it’s best for Edinburgh if Leinster win? So, uh, go Leinster! #rugby #URC #UnitedRugbyChampionship #LEIvCON
“Is this the best camera operator in rugby?!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfKLDYXO8TU
#Rugby #Rugbaidh #Rugbaí #Rygbi #URC #UnitedRugbyChampionship
Halbzeit #LEIvBUL 12:14. Spitzenspiel in der #UnitedRugbyChampionship zwischen 1 und 2. Spiel kippte nach 30min mit der Tackle-Qualität. Anfangs verpassten die #Bulls ein Drittel ihre Tackles. Nach 30min kassierte #Leinster bei seinen Tackles zuviel Raumverlust, insbesondere durch den unaufhaltsam flinken BUL-14-Arendse.
LEI in Unterzahl nach Scheiß-Tackle von 9-McGrath, der auch noch ein HIA kassierte (35te), weswegen nun 15-Larmour den Ersatz-Scrum-Half geben muss.