Matt Williams
Specialist Rugby Writer at Irish Times
Rugby Commentator at Virgin Media Television Ireland
Pro Rugby Coach Waratahs Leinster Ireland Scotland Ulster Narbonne. TV with Virginmedia & write for the Irish Times. Dad & Long boarder. Contact @PS_Speakers
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Matt Williams
It is no crash that if we charted the rise of the Irish national team alongside the introduction of our indigenous provincial club competition, the two lines would almost overlap. In the amateur era, the AIL club competition was dominant in Ireland, with the provincial teams playing only a handful of representative games. This structure placed Irish rugby and the national team in an extraordinarily weak position during Ireland’s transition to professionalism in the late 1990s.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Matt Williams
For many years, politics within the IRFU kept Ireland from participating in the global Sevens programme. In 2009, the excitement surrounding Sevens reached fever pitch when the game was accepted into the Olympics. Yet Ireland remained steadfast in refusing to participate until 2014. During that period, the IRFU’s stance astounded me and many others in Irish rugby.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Matt Williams
Retired Lieutenant General HR McMaster is best known for his time serving as one of America’s national security advisers in the first Trump administration. As a beacon of common sense and rationality in the midst of Donald Trump’s chaotic first term, not unexpectedly, his ability to influence the US president’s decision making lasted only 13 months.
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4 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Matt Williams
The public response to another Champions Cup heartbreak for Leinster has been disappointing but not surprising. The vocal criticism of Leo Cullen has been mob-like in its ignorance. Here are the facts. Across the last five years, Leinster have lost three finals and two semi-finals in this tournament. These defeats have been an epoch-defining series of missed opportunities that history will not judge with kindness. Here is another fact.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Matt Williams
My great aunt, Bessie Maher, was a woman ahead of her time. The youngest daughter from a dairy farming family who had emigrated from the lush green of Nenagh in Tipperary to the dry brown hills of western New South Wales, she was a dynamo of energy and intellect. Like many women of her generation, the love of her life was killed in the carnage of the first World War and she never married.
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Matt Williams: Ulster’s decision to run up the white flag a bleak day for Irish rugby https://t.co/LvLyxWu2It
Matt Williams: Rugby is in a bad state but our leadership plays dumb https://t.co/TYRcGItKcc
Cracking match. SA hate chasing the game. So much talent in green but they have kicked away far to much possession. SA should have game win. France unbelievably brave short kicking game. What a match.