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1 week ago | 
balls.ie | Joshua Bell Curran |Eoin Harrington |Lee Costello |Jonathan Browne
Lions and England legend Anthony Watson revealed the hilarious story of his Vegas night out with Ireland prop and proud Wexford man Tadhg Furlong. Both two-time tourists, Watson and Furlong, were part of the Lions squads that travelled to New Zealand in 2017 and South Africa in 2021.
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1 week ago | 
balls.ie | Eoin Harrington |Rob O'Halloran |Joshua Bell Curran |Jonathan Browne
Of all the All Blacks stars Leinster could have gone for, few would have expected them to go after centre Rieko Ioane. And yet, on Wednesday morning, Ioane confirmed that he will be taking a year sabbatical from his duties with the Blues in New Zealand to try on the blue of Leinster for six months. It was particularly surprising given Ioane's history with Leinster legend Johnny Sexton and his frosty history with Ireland.
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1 week ago | 
balls.ie | Eoin Harrington |Rob O'Halloran |Joshua Bell Curran |Jonathan Browne
The rugby world has been left stunned this Wednesday by the out-of-the-blue announcement that Rieko Ioane will join Leinster next season on a six-month deal. All Blacks centre Ioane has exercised his right to a sabattical from Super Rugby side Blues, and will spend part of that year break playing for Leinster, The Blues confirmed on Wednesday morning. Ioane himself took to social media to confirm the news.
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1 week ago | 
balls.ie | Joshua Bell Curran |Eoin Harrington |Rob O'Halloran |Jonathan Browne
Leinster once again stormed to an overly easy Champions Cup last Friday night when they held Glasgow, the best attacking team in the competition, scoreless and booked their place in a European semi-final. The 52-0 win was Leinster's second thrashing in a week, having also handed Premiership Giants Harlequins a 62-0 hammering in Croke Park six days earlier.
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1 week ago | 
balls.ie | Joshua Bell Curran |Eoin Harrington |Niall McIntyre |Jonathan Browne
The Lions is just around the corner, the team will be announced in less than a month and excitement is ever-growing for what is Andy Farrell's first stint at the helm. After their recent successes and that of Leinster, it is a tour that many of Ireland's stars will be expecting to go on, with the likes of Jamison Gibson-Park and Caelan Doris already considered dead-set tourists Down Under. There, they'll join an illustrious club of former tourists who have worn the famous red jersey before them.
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1 week ago | 
balls.ie | Jonathan Browne
History was made in Bahrain as Ireland had their first ever winner in a Formula 2 Grand Prix as Offaly's Alex Dunne brushed aside the opposition to win his maiden race. Dunne, who is a McLaren developmental driver and races for Rodin Motorsports, qualified fourth on the grid jumped up to second after turn 1 following wheelspin for Victor Martins.
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1 week ago | 
balls.ie | Jonathan Browne
It's been a great fortnight for Leinster as after winning their last two matches by a combined score of 114-0 they now have a semi-final rematch at home to Northampton Saints. Having slaughtered Harlequins 62-0 at Croke Park, Leinster followed that performance up with an equally dominant display against URC champions Glasgow Warriors as they were already up 33-0 at halftime before scoring 3 more tries in the second half to win 52-0.
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1 week ago | 
balls.ie | Jonathan Browne
It's all set up to a Grandstand final round at The Masters as Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau will be the final pair to go out in the course and compete for the green jacket. Rory takes a two-shot lead into the final round after scoring back-to-back 66's in a historic third round to recover from a nightmare finish to his first round.
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2 weeks ago | 
balls.ie | Eoin Harrington |Joshua Bell Curran |Daniel Carpenter Byrne |Jonathan Browne
Ahead of the 2025 Masters, Shane Lowry said a win from either himself or Rory McIlroy would be one of the biggest achievements in Irish sporting history. Despite the illustrious history of Irish golfers in the sport of golf, the green jacket remains elusive. Since 1998, when Darren Clarke was invited over, no Masters tournament has taken place without at least one Irishman in the field. So far, there have been six top-10 finishes, shared between three players, McIlroy, Shane Lowry and Harrington.
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2 weeks ago | 
balls.ie | Jonathan Browne
Cork were crowned 2025 Allianz Hurling League Division 1A champions as they were utterly dominant in a 3-24 to 0-23 win over Tipperary at Supervalu Páirc Uí Chaoimh. It's Cork's first league title since 1998 as they avenged their only defeat of the campaign against Tipperary back in February and also kept their fourth clean sheet of the campaign as well as their defence was imperious in Leeside for the final.
