Leinster captain Caelan Doris will get a new injury checked out after being forced off in the early stages of his side's 36-7 United Rugby Championship final win over the Bulls.

Leinster retain their United Rugby Championship title with a resounding 36-7 win over the Bulls at Croke Park in Dublin.

Veteran prop James Slipper has gone back on his international retirement to return to Australia's ranks after being named in the Wallabies squad for the forthcoming Nations Championship.

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Veteran prop out of retirement for Nations Championship TestsThree uncapped players in line for potential debuts against Ireland Veteran prop James Slipper and uncapped trio Declan Meredith, Lachlan Shaw and Miles Amatosero have all been included in the Wallabies squad for next month’s Nations Championship Tests in Australia.After retiring last November, 37-year-old Slipper could surpass All Blacks great Sam Whitelock as rugby’s second most-capped player in history after answering an SOS call from coach Joe Schmidt. Continue reading...

Chris and Ashy look ahead to the Prem final between Northampton and Exeter

BBC Sport NI assesses the credentials of the three uncapped players named by Ireland head coach Andy Farrell in his squad for the upcoming Nations Championship fixtures.

Leinster captain Caelan Doris is fit to start Friday's United Rugby Championship final against the Bulls as Tadhg Furlong returns to the line-up.

Who will prevail in Saturday's titanic Prem final meeting between Northampton and Exeter?

Ireland prop Andrew Porter has been ruled out of Leinster's United Rugby Championship final with the Bulls at Croke Park.

The 25-year-old missed Wales' Women's Six Nations campaign because of injury, but is set to return against Barbarians on 27 June.

Rugby World Cup winner says he feels like he is picking up the fundraising baton from people such as Doddie Weir and Rob BurrowSunshine streams into Lewis Moody’s conservatory near Bath as we share a sofa with his dog, Ziggy, who has swapped his usual cheerful bounciness for a peaceful snooze. Moody has already explained how Ziggy licked away the tears rolling down his face, and the face of his wife, Annie, when they told their teenage sons that he has motor neurone disease. And now he says something extraordinary with a certainty that feels far stronger and more enduring than the mid-afternoon sunlight.“It is a gift and a privilege,” Moody says of the lesson he has gleaned from the terrible diagnosis he received last October. “I’m not sure if privilege is the right word but MND helps you really understand what you love and what makes you happy. So you learn to apply your time in that direction and, invariably, being happy is about doing things that feel purposeful and spending time with the people you love and doing things that help others.” Continue reading...

Ex-Wales coach Wayne Pivac tells Scrum V that Welsh rugby missed a trick in 2019 by not combining Ospreys with his Scarlets side to create a super region.

Shaun Edwards' departure from France's national team is being negotiated after nearly seven years on their staff.