Leinster have announced their men’s and women’s players of the season, and men’s and women’s young players of the season at their annual awards ball ahead of next week’s URC Grand Final. The event, hosted by MC Joe Molloy, celebrated the best of domestic and professional rugby over the 2025/26 season. It was also an […]

The URC final takes place this month, with Leinster securing their passage after defeating the Stormers 20-11 at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday, and will now take on the Bulls in Croke Park. The Aviva Stadium is unavailable due to a Metallica gig, while Croke Park is reserved for matches on Saturday and Sunday, leaving […]

Last season's URC semi-final with Glasgow at Aviva Stadium had an attendance of 15,762

Blues produce excellent team performance for nine-point win

Leinster booked their place in a second URC final in a row after edging out the Stormers 20 -11 in a feisty affair at the Aviva Stadium. It was all Leinster in the early Leinster as, despite the Stormers’ front-up hits, the hosts kept up sustained pressure, and Rieko Ioane was able to glide over […]

"We knew it was going to be a battle and it was a bit like the story of our season."

Stormers’ only previous semi-final outside of South Africa ended in a 27-16 defeat to the Crusaders in Super Rugby in 2004

And he takes on the six question that define the different Leinster staff coaches roles

"I got a bit of slagging off, lads saying I'm watching a bit too much football. I was just trying to stop it with my foot because of the way the ball was bouncing."

Leo Cullen has pushed back against Bernard Jackman’s criticism of Sam Prendergast and Fintan Gunne being present in the coaches’ box last month. The Leinster head coach was speaking after his side’s 59-10 win over the Lions in Dublin last Saturday, as Leinster secured their spot in the URC semi-final against the Stormers this weekend. […]

Nienaber is brilliant, compelling, can be witty and, when donning the war-bonnet, passionate. The explosive press conference is broken down here

Donnacha O’Callaghan has criticised Leinster’s decision to bench Tadhg Furlong in their Champions Cup final defeat to Bordeaux in Bilbao earlier this month. Furlong was then due to start last Saturday’s quarter-final at home to the Lions, but he was a late withdrawal from the team, and Leinster have now confirmed that he and others […]

Something is clearly not working at Leinster. A fifth Champions Cup Final loss now, and it’s looking like Leo Cullen’s big experiment in bringing in Jacques Nienaber has backfired. Having abandoned their attacking brand under Stuart Lancaster for a defence-first approach under Nienaber, Leinster have been unable to hold teams out to the same extent […]

Caelan Doris believed Leinster’s Champions Cup Final humiliation to Bordeaux had echoes of Ireland’s similarly heavy defeat to France in the Six Nations. It was a dark day for Leinster as they were comprehensively hammered by a Bordeaux side that could do no wrong. It felt like in the first half, every bounce of the […]

It was a grim day for Leinster and Irish rugby as Leo Cullen’s side were trounced by a rampant Bordeaux-Begles side 41-19 at the San Mames in Bilbao. In the blaring Basque sun, it was Leinster that struck first as Tommy O’Brien dotted down in the corner after 19 phases of attack. But that lead […]

On what could be a historic day for Leinster as they get ready to face Bordeaux-Begles in the Champions Cup final, one familiar name that won’t be in the proceedings is James Lowe. The Ireland flyer didn’t make Leo Cullen’s Matchday 23 after only returning from injury last week. Lowe hadn’t played since Ireland’s record […]

L’Union Bordeaux-Bègles a conservé son titre de champion d'Europe après avoir battu le Leinster, samedi (41-19)

Ireland is set for a major warm spell, with temperatures expected to top 20C this weekend and potentially climb above 30C next week.

L’Union Bordeaux-Bègles affronte le Leinster samedi (15h45) en finale de la Champions Cup, un rendez-vous qui pourrait faire beaucoup (mais pas tout) pour sa cote d’amour

Lowe, Lamour and Furlong step up training

"It can be tough at times but we’d rather have that high level of expectation than fans to be happy to see us just to reach the semi-finals or lose a few games."

Dominant at scrum-time and with the lineout also going well, there were tries from Jack Conan, Josh van der Flier, Garry Ringrose and Caelan Doris on the way to 29-25 win

"I made a carry early on, Smith came out off the line and almost cut me in half. They were trying to kill us. I think that was their game plan."

"Toulon are are a very proud club as are we, obviously. I think either way it is going to be a battle"

"Ideally we win games by 30 points, but we have the confidence that if we're in those tight games we can find a way."

"You tend to not overthink things when you're out there. It's an element of letting go and playing free."

"We know the history," he says of the three-time Champions Cup-winning club's past. "It will forever be etched in the club's folklore"

"We had some opportunities, scored good tries, got ourselves into a good lead but we weren't quite clinical enough over the course of the 80 minutes."

Leinster hoping a bonus-point win, combined with other results, can take them to the top of the table

This brings with it the return of the much-vaunted Conan-van der Flier-Doris back-row