Faf de Klerk and Cheslin Kolbe out of South Africa’s Autumn tests
Springboks name a 32-man squad for tests against Wales, Scotland and England
Matt Williams: Wallabies win was one for the good guys in the battle for rugby’s soul
Springboks are butchering our beautiful game but running rugby is fighting back
Lions claim first blood after brilliant second-half fightback in Cape Town
Dan Biggar kicks 14 points as Warren Gatland’s side beat Springboks in first Test
Argentina rugby great Hugo Porta continues to give back to his beloved game
Banco Nacional club president is devoting a large amount of his free time to charity work
Matt Williams: Daunting task facing coaches to teach what once came naturally
Coronavirus will further limit kids’ opportunities to work on rugby’s key skills
2019-20 Champions Cup pool-by-pool guide
Gavin Cummiskey looks at the contenders ahead of the first round of Champions Cup games
Rugby World Cup 2019: Gerry Thornley’s team of the tournament
Players from six countries are represented, with five of the XV from South Africa
Rugby World Cup: Smaller players make giant leaps in a tournament of behemoths
South Africa’s Faf de Klerk one of the players showing that size is of little matter
New Zealand hit the ground running with win over South Africa
Rugby World Cup: Defending champions weather Boks’ storm to take charge of Pool B
Rugby World Cup: Flashes of black magic cast a spell on Boks
New Zealand soak up the punishment and turn on the style in ominous 23-13 win
Connacht hang tough to draw level with Sale
Late Horwitz penalty gets Connacht over the line in Galway
Connacht braced for choppy waters in ‘must-win’ Sale Sharks clash
Andy Friend makes sweeping changes to side narrowly defeated by Munster last week
Sale step up the pressure to leave Connacht with a familiar feeling
Ashton’s three tries help consign the visitors to another defeat in England
England face a daunting climb in the shadow of Table Mountain
Eddie Jones’s side staring Springboks series whitewash in the face in Newlands Test
Running of Glasgow too much for Munster
Munster played into Glasgow’s hands with an aimless kicking game
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Two towering performances enhance this serviceable, poignantly timed biopic, writes Tara Brady
The lessons of peace learned in the North may not be that easy to export
Opinion: It is insulting to black South Africans to compare their experience to that of Catholics from the Bogside
Mandela’s body lying in state
Thousands expected to pay their respects to South African anti-apartheid leader
Bono: My friend Nelson Mandela, the man who could not cry
‘He has been a forceful presence in my life going back to 1979, when U2 made our first anti-apartheid effort’
Mandela a practitioner ‘of most incredible acts of magnanimity’
‘Nelson’s time in jail was quite crucial. Of course, suffering embitters some people, but it ennobles others’
Address by Nelson Mandela to Dáil Éireann
Just months after his release from prison in South Africa, Nelson Mandela visited Ireland in July 1990. The following is the full text of his address to Dáil Éireann
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