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Twenty for 2020

Will the upcoming year be more fondly remembered than the 12 months just gone? You’d wonder how it could be any worse, writes Garry Doyle

Playing by his own rules: Warren Gatland talks career highs and lows

In a career of highs and lows coaching Ireland and then Wales, Warren Gatland has never shied away from making tough or unpopular decisions. Garry Doyle finds him ready to engage

Pacific horizons must open up for rugby world

Rugby needs to take action to accommodate its long-neglected island nations

Streets Of Dreams: How inner-city Dublin made football idol Troy Parrott

The area around the Five Lamps is also nothing short of a talent factory that continues to churn out Ireland’s best young footballers

Rugby World Cup: The ultimate comeback

Led by their inspirational captain, Siya Kolisi, the South African rugby team beat England

No easy solution to Irish rugby’s World Cup woes

After last weekend’s humiliation against the All Blacks, Ireland’s Rugby World Cup knockout record sits at a wretched zero wins from eight games. It’s back to the drawing board for the IRFU, but where do they go from here?

Power and panache propel England into a fourth RWC final

When Eddie Jones’s team dialled up the pressure in Yokohama yesterday, the much-vaunted All Blacks couldn’t find an answer

Schmidt’s final act comes up short

Joe Schmidt sat in the coach’s box at the Tokyo stadium, wearing the fraught expression of a man waiting in sporting purgatory

All Blacks prove too hot to handle

l Ireland’s hopes of reaching the Rugby World Cup semi-finals were cruelly dashed yesterday, as an excellent New Zealand team ruthlessly exposed the Irish team’s weakneses, beating them 46-14

Rueful Aki sees red as Ireland enjoy Samoan stroll in Fukuoka

The odds on Ireland remaining visible in the tournament beyond next weekend are long

Typhoon trauma gives World Rugby plenty to ponder

The devastation in parts of Japan this weekend partly vindicated World Rugby’s scrapping of fixtures. But it has other questions to answer

Delaney: The FAI’s worst own goal

Football tsar who loved the limelight squandered the chance of a revolution

Another kind of World Cup hero

New Zealand’s Luke Jacobson, had the courage to bow out of the tournament when he declared himself concussed in a training session before the All Blacks’ opener with the Springboks

Ireland are known for bouncebackability, but they need Sexton to win

It’s a puzzle as to who the real Ireland is, the heroes who beat the All Blacks or the team that meekly capitulated to Japan

After the ball

What does a rugby star do after he hangs up his boots? For the former Ireland internationals Andrew Trimble and Gordon D’Arcy, the answer wasn’t a straightforward one, writes Garry Doyle

Time to stop crying crocodile tears for the island nations

Nothing is as predictable at World Cups as the deluge of fake tears from those who pretend to care about the fate of the Pacific Islanders

Schmidt stands exposed as unsuspecting Ireland walk straight into Japan’s ambush

The hosts made sure that yesterday’s match was played on their terms – and Joe Schmidt and Ireland simply had no answer

Balkan ghosts at the feast

‘Organised chaos’ will only get spirited Japanese so far

The hosts caused a sensation four years ago by ambushing South Africa, but they remain makeweights at the highest level

The cup runneth over: The financial power of the Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is now a glitzy tournament transformed beyond recognition from its humble beginnings in 1987. But is it really as big and lucrative an event as its cheerleaders claim?