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Ospreys v Munster Match Reaction
Would you recognise this man without trademark blue scrum cap? Quality player. Picture: Huw Evans (Murray!) The end of an era. This match brought to mind the game against Toulouse where Mick Galwey...
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Match Reaction: Leinster 19 – 15 Glasgow
Vintage Heaslip: Jamie Heaslip backs himself and goes around the outside of the Glasgow defense for a fifty yard break. The Leinster No8 still hasn’t lost a match as captain of his province. Leinster...
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Heineken Cup Final Reaction #1: M’Learned Friends Of The Bench
Cronin scoots in on eighty minutes for the fifth Leinster try. While it must have been hard to take for Ulster fans, Leinster fans will be happy that the team played for the whole match and kept...
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Hard Core Welsh
The current Ospreys backline aren’t exactly “no-stats superstars” – Shane Williams has scored 58 international tries and Dan Biggar has kicked 300 points this season – but they’re a long way from the...
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Match Reaction #3: Another One For The Reel Of Infamy
Andy Dufresne and lovely Rita. “Me? My lawyer fucked me. Everybody’s innocent in here. Didn’t you know that?” As Declan Kidney said in the aftermath, you can only control what you can control. It’s no...
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Out of the West
West Coast/East Coast – ol’ skool Connacht is the runt of the litter of Irish rugby. While there’s various dynamics at play between Leinster, Munster and Ulster, the attitude towards Connacht is that...
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Mole Management Program
The Mole is back, three weeks into the domestic season, just like an international. Is the player management program of any benefit? We’re not sure either, so let’s just ease back into things and see...
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Shifting Landscape
Peter O’Reilly reported a few interesting quotes in one of his pieces at the weekend. Both were from Leinster men and both reinforced a point that the Mole has held since hearing proposals that Joe...
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The Age of Aquarius
Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. – Joshua 9:23 JJ Hanrahan is one of the original...
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Buy, Rent Or Steal [Or Loan]
The news that Glasgow Warriors have released their Scottish test-capped second row Kieran Low on a loan deal to Saracens probably didn’t break the internet in the same manner as just about everything...
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