Today saw the first rugby game in the new Lansdowne Road stadium (I’ll start calling it by its sponsored name when that particular insurance company pays me some money or offers me a job!) and I was lucky enough to pick up a premium level ticket.
The event was a match between Leinster & Ulster [...]
Dublin’s extra time win over Wexford did little to inspire confidence in the future of either team. The Leinster champions doggedly stuck to a failing strategy for so long it should have cost them the game only for Wexford to show the same failings that saw them lose out on promotion from Division 3 in [...]
This is the big finals weekend in Rugby with the Magners League, Guinness Premiership, Super 14 and Top 14 all reaching their climax. Given the BBC doesn’t even consider the latter worthy of including in their fixture list we’ve started with that one.
Can something go right for Clermont Auvergne?
After coming second in 10 previous attempts, [...]
The ninth episode of our podcast The Prawn Sandwich show is now online.
This week, we hear from John Delaney and Emmet & Cóilín discuss the FAI vetoing Limerick FC’s planned friendly against Barcelona. Shane Jennings talks to the Prawn Sandwich Show as wepreview the Magners League final between Leinster and the Ospreys and we hear [...]
This Saturday marks the third meeting of Leinster and Munster this season and for Malcolm O’Kelly and Girvan Dempsey it could be the last time they wear the blue jersey. The currently injured Bernard Jackman has also signaled his likely retirement. While these old heads won’t be gracing the RDS anymore, it’s Munster that should [...]
The eighth episode of our podcast The Prawn Sandwich show is now online.
This week, we look at the upcoming Magners League semi finals and the Heineken Cup final, Cóilín talks to Michael Shields, the Cork senior football captain and Emmet tells us about some recent sex scandals in American sports.
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Action81.com’s Cóilín Duffy caught up with the Leinster team and management earlier this week to get their thoughts on this weekend’s Heineken Cup semi-final with Toulouse. Just press play on the audio files below to hear their thoughts on the big game.
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Leo Cullen
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The sixth episode of our podcast The Prawn Sandwich show is now online.
This week we look forward to the GAA National Hurling League finals and the Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup semi finals all on next weekend. We also take a look at the upcoming Mosely v Mayweather fight and finally, as usual, we [...]
In a special edition of our podcast, The Prawn Sandwich Show, we look forward to this weekend’s European quarter finals involving Leinster, Munster and Connacht.
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The Leinster XV that will start against Clermont Auvergne in Friday’s Heineken Cup Quarter Final has been named:
Backs: 15 Rob Kearney, 14 Shane Horgan, 13 Brian O’Driscoll, 12 Gordon D’Arcy, 11 Isa Nacewa, 10 Jonathan Sexton, 9 Eoin Reddan
Forwards: 1 Stan Wright, 2, John Fogarty, 3 CJ van der Linde, 4 Leo Cullen (c), 5 [...]
