Emerging Ireland

On the latest episode of The Left Wing, Will Slattery and Luke Fitzgerald are joined by Cian Tracey to discuss all the latest rugby news.

It was the Jack Crowley show as the Munster fly-half will have given Andy Farrell plenty of food for thought with Johnny Sexton retiring next year. Promoted ...

Ulster have six players involved in today's Emerging Ireland squad to take on the Airlink Pumas in Bloemfontein (kick-off 4pm) in the second game of their ...

Ireland assistant coach Mike Catt has mounted an impassioned defence of the Emerging Ireland tour ahead of today's clash with the Pumas.

Not quite the hammering it was shaping up to be early doors, as Emerging Ireland were made to work hard for victory over the Pumas at Toyota Stadium in ...

The Leinster academy man scored two tries in a narrow Irish victory over the Pumas.

Although the tourists ultimately came away with a 28-24 win, a review of this game certainly won't make for pretty viewing.

The 19-year-old James Culhane scored a brace of tries in an excellent individual performance.

In the Irish players' defence, the heat and altitude in Bloemfontein, which the South Africans would have been more comfortable with, was always going to be a ...

Emerging Ireland made it two wins from in their tour of South Africa but they were holding on towards the end of their 28-24 victory over Pumas in ...

In the Irish players' defence, the heat and altitude in Bloemfontein, which the South Africans would have been more comfortable with, was always going to be a ...

Simon Easterby's side racked up a big early lead but were drawn into a battle in Bloemfontein.

The Pumas struck back with a brace of tries by outside centre Sebastiaan de Klerk to make it a four-point game. With [Laya Healthcare](https://www.layahealthcare.ie/), official health and wellbeing partner to Leinster, Munster and Connacht Rugby. This time De Beer managed to convert the try. Captain Tinus de Beer was unable to add the extra two points from the conversion. Eduan Swart scored the second try for the Pumas when he managed to ground the ball from a strong lineout maul with some ten minutes remaining in the first half. The Pumas managed to get on the board in the 20th minute when the number eight, André Fouche, managed to ground the ball following a quick tap after an Irish penalty for being offside.

James Culhane was riding the crest of a wave earlier this year. An U-20s Grand Slam winner's medal in his pocket. The player of the championship trophy to ...

“It was really out of the blue and I ended up in hospital for like four weeks. “I just did a few exams in hospital, so that was a rough stint,” he continued. “I was just really looking forward to an opportunity to learn from the best coaches and lads a few years older than me. “It was really random, my kidneys went into like acute failure,” the 19-year-old revealed. The player of the championship trophy to go alongside it. James Culhane was riding the crest of a wave earlier this year.

Chay Mullins, Jake Flannery and James Culhane (2) all crossed for a young Emerging Ireland outfit, who then withheld a strong second-half fightback from the ...

Emerging Ireland centre Cathal Forde has stressed just how physical the Pumas were in a hard-fought encounter in South Africa.

It’s just really good to come away with a win. “It was an unbelievable game, unbelievably physical. “The lungs are feeling it after that.

The Pumas dominated large parts of the final hour and there was a very real threat of them pulling off a remarkable comeback win.

“At times we coughed up the ball a bit too easily and couldn’t quite sustain the pressure you need at this level to put a side to bed. We had to manage some situations when we were in their territory in terms of trying to keep applying the pressure or score points. After all, this tour was always - at least partly - intended to test new players under pressure, and gauge the response when an opponent stressed them defensively.

The 19-year-old was hospitalised for four weeks after starring for the Ireland U20s.

That he was so recently going through what he underplays as his “rough stint” in a hospital bed makes his achievement all the more impressive. “It was really out of the blue and I ended up in hospital for like four weeks. The Wicklow native appears to take real glee in getting stuck in physically, but he has nice handling skills too. With [Laya Healthcare](https://www.layahealthcare.ie/), official health and wellbeing partner to Leinster, Munster and Connacht Rugby. “It’s just extremely technical, around lineout, stuff I’ve never really learned before. The ex-De La Salle Palmerston FC player scored two tries in what was a