#British and Irish Lions

In the internet age, there’s no need for ‘Disgusted of Dublin’, to reach for his green ink and writing paper and rattle off a letter to a newspaper explaining why he disagrees with a rugby selection. There’s no need for those of a different gender to do so, either. Social

The memory drifts back to Mark Ring producing a spellbinding performance for Pontypool against Llanelli in the 1990s. It was close to the end of his playing career and one of Welsh rugby’s all-time great entertainers had a leg problem which hampered him, but there was nothing

So, who shone brightly, and who didn’t, as the Lions fell to an agonising defeat against South Africa in the third and final Test in Cape Town? They had no shortage of opportunities to win, with an avalanche of possession in the opening half, but failed to take them as the

A young Irish fly-half on a tour of New Zealand was once told by famed All Blacks flanker Grizz Wyllie: “You’ve come a long way to die, son.” Happy days. But at least the tourist in question was on the field at the time, warning or no warning. Inactivity on a rugby tour, or