Ireland beat Japan 35-13 on Saturday to sweep their two-game series despite a rousing second-half performance by the 2019 Rugby World Cup hosts. Ireland thrashed Japan 50-22 in the opening game in Shizuoka the previous weekend and the visitors wasted little time in establishing their ...
Michael Leitch was named Japan captain Thursday as the Brave Blossoms look to restore some pride this weekend in the second test against Ireland. Head coach Jamie Joseph responded to a disappointing 50-22 defeat in the first test — in which he said the players ...
The Ireland rugby team believes it deserves to be considered among the favorites to lift the 2019 World Cup in Japan and has little time for suggestions that the six-time quarterfinalist is jinxed in the competition. "We're ranked third in the world and we were ...
Ireland rugby fans attending their country's test match against Japan in Shizuoka on Saturday were confident that supporters around the Asia-Pacific region will help make the 2019 World Cup an international festival. "I'd say every Irish person that lives within flying distance will come," said ...
Ireland handed Japan a harsh lesson with a 50-22 victory in the first of two test matches between the 2019 Rugby World Cup group rivals on Saturday. Japan went into the game at Ecopa Stadium looking to beat Ireland for the first time in eight ...
Leo Varadkar promised a "republic of opportunity" Wednesday after he became Ireland's youngest prime minister and the first who is openly gay. The Dublin-born politician's Indian immigrant father and Irish mother were in Parliament to watch as the 38-year-old was formally confirmed as taoiseach. Varadkar, who ...
Britain's Prince William and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny led a ceremony in Belgium on Wednesday marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Messines in World War I. The iconic June 1917 battle in northeast Belgium cost the lives of thousands of soldiers and ...
One of the three attackers shot dead in London on Saturday night was carrying an Irish residency card and had lived in Dublin, according to a report Monday by Ireland's national broadcaster RTE. Citing security sources, RTE said this was 30-year-old Rachid Redouane, one of ...
Political leaders in Northern Ireland are casting Thursday's British election as a referendum on whether voters want to be part of the United Kingdom or neighboring Ireland. Britain's vote to leave the European Union has raised the stakes in the long and divisive dispute over ...
Chef Takashi Miyazaki has a Cork accent. It's a hard accent to pin down, but 'de Cork' accent sounds somewhere between the lilt of the Caribbean Islands and being happily constipated. It's not the only thing Miyazaki has picked up since opening his bijou Japanese ...
Japan rugby head coach Jamie Joseph is keen to get a first-hand look at his 2019 Rugby World Cup rivals when the Brave Blossoms play Ireland in two test matches in June. But the New Zealander also warned against reading too much into his team's ...
Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland who was a key figure throughout five decades of conflict and peace, has died at 66, his party, Sinn Fein, said on Tuesday. McGuinness, whose journey from street fighter to ...
