Pre-match disruption affects Irish province’s performance in torrential rain at The Rec

Rieko Ioane expected to make debut from the bench against depleted English team

Hosts Australia are drawn with three time champions, New Zealand

Ireland will be meeting Scotland for the third straight time in the pool stages while they will face Uruguay and Portugal for the first time

Connacht and Ulster prepare for opening fixtures in Challenge Cup

South African side stage brilliant second-half turnaround thanks to utter dominance at scrum time

We don’t want to jinx Richie Murphy’s squad, but Ulster have been a treat to watch this season

RG Snyman is among replacements, as Leinster rest their leading Irish players for trip to Wales

Matthew Carley showed seven yellow cards on Saturday, with one upgraded and one rescinded, but there probably should have been more

Ill-discipline hindered Ireland against the Springboks, but their admirable collective spirit offered some solace

Head coach said he was giving travelling fans the thumbs up at the end of the game

Mack Hansen and Caelan Doris among those who impressed in difficult circumstances

Setpiece in 2025 running at 89.1%, which is higher than the 85.9% of world champions, the Springboks

South Africa make two alterations to the starting team that beat France a fortnight ago

Winger has never won in Dublin, while the Springboks last success there was in 2012