By Gerry O’Sullivan. Sunday, 26 February 2006.
Ireland’s 31-5 win over Wales today was a much-needed boost. That they restricted the Welsh to one score in total was heartening. Now they are on four points along with England, France and Scotland.
Ireland appeared to have learned a good few lessons from the debacle in Paris. Their defence […]

By Gerry O’Sullivan. Saturday, 25 February 2006.
Six Nations 2006 is developing into the most open contest in years. As I write, five of the six teams are still in with a shout of the championship. There will be no Grand Slam winner this year, as England’s loss to Scotland this evening means that every team […]

A few years ago the Celtic League was a bit of a farce because of the fact that with International commitments some of the bigger teams were pretty much unable to compete on a lot of weekends. Thankfully this situation is somewhat resolved these days but unfortunately there still are weekends when many players are […]

So it’s taken me almost two days to get my head around what the hell happened on Saturday in Paris. Basically I’ve reached the view that Ireland did nothing much different in the last 30 minutes but the French decided to go on their week break a bit early. Having watched the match again there’s […]

So following the weekend’s action serious questions have to be asked about what is going wrong with Irish International rugby. At lower-levels, the Irish sides have shown flair, vision and adventure but on Saturday when the International side lined out to take on Italy all of this was missing. In the end Ireland were extremely […]

So here we find ourselves, just under 24 hours before the kick-off of the 2006 Six Nations, will Ireland do themselves justice or will they fail to deliver the goods. The omens for a good performance might be there, Munster & Leinster have been going fantastically well in the Heineken Cup while Ulster have had […]