Before the Lions toured in 2001 the Brumbies won the then Super 12 competition, and had 13 players selected in the 31-man ...

A is for ALFRED Shaw, one of three entrepreneurs who came up with the concept of the British and Irish Lions and organised ...

After guiding Bath to the Challenge Cup title on Friday, Scotland's talisman is approaching a series of games this summer that will define his legacy ...

Van der Flier made his club debut for Leinster back in October 2014 against Zebre and impressed sufficiently to be handed a ...

SIONE TUIPULOTU and James Lowe. An Australian accent and a Kiwi accent. One has a Scottish grandmother, the other has Irish ...

Kept awake by the twin stimulants of caffeine and nerves, Sione’s mother, father and grandmother wait and watch as the British and Irish Lions ... my dad wearing Lions jerseys.

Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt has some tricky selections to make for the series against the British and Irish Lions. Since taking ... lost one series in Australia (2001). In O’Connor’s case ...

Four years later, Sir Ian McGeechan – a Lions Test series winner as a player and coach – matched that record by picking eight ...

As such, Schmidt revealed on Monday he would wrap his top-tier men in cotton wool to ensure they have the best chance of claiming their first series win against the Lions since 2001 ... has risked ...

Depth is a major concern for the Wallabies, meaning they cannot afford to lose players to injury in the build-up to the British and Irish Lions tour.

That was the week that was, and it’s hard not to view the unveiling of the 38-man British & Irish ... Lions tour as O’Gara himself did when he first became a Lion on the tour to Australia in 2001.