Since the turn of the century, school playing fields have come to represent a battleground on which rugby union, we keep ...

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Fergus Slattery, who has died aged 77, was one of Ireland’s greatest ever rugby union players and a member of the British and Irish Lions’ back-row trio on their triumphant tour of South Africa in ...

Rugby Union can look chaotic to the untrained eye - 30 players crashing into each other, a ball that never seems to roll straight, and whistles you can’t quite explain. But behind the apparent chaos ...

The World Rugby Council has approved Iraq’s application for associate member status at its meeting in Dublin on 17 June, ...

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The 49-year-old had already been working with Quins on a part-time ...

Noughts & Crosses author Malorie Blackman and Gruffalo creator Julia Donaldson are made dames, as the rugby lead star is ...

Hotels group Radisson aims to move into the George in Huddersfield once renovated.

A 27-year-old Central Coast rugby union player has died in Bali and his devastated family and football club are now ...

Correspondence to Dr Steffan A Griffin, Centre for Sport and Exercise, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK; steffangriffin{at}gmail.com Data sources Published and unpublished reports of ...