Peter O’Mahony on nerves, childhood heroes and controlling his aggression

VIDEO: New Zealand players’ hotel room cover of Shaggy’s ‘It Wasn’t Me’ is stupendous

REVEALED: Paul O’Connell was in a tunnel flare-up with French players before 2011 World Cup

Paul O’Connell uses all the evasion skills of a winger to avoid All Blacks quarter final question

Tommy Bowe knows who he wants to replace Jared Payne

Secret to the All Blacks success revealed in half-time dressing room snap

State of the Nation: Win tomorrow and a clear path to the last four emerges

Joe Schmidt was gushing about Shane Long’s goal last night

Late injury blow sees Ireland go back to basics for France

Injury strikes Ireland’s World Cup squad as team announcement delayed

A German fan got landed in with the Irish last night… and had the time of his life

5 camera-rattling videos of the absolute scenes across Ireland after our German glory

France have selected a monstrous back row unit to take on Ireland

Joe Schmidt set to axe Ireland’s best two players for vital France clash

VIDEO: 7-year-old in Aviva crowd absolutely adored Jon Walters’ heroic hold-up play

VIDEO: Justin Bieber (yes, him) posts footage from the victorious Irish team bus

VIDEO: Shane Long’s goal played out to German TV commentary is pure bliss

Jurgen Klopp’s 10-word message to Liverpool supporters is inspirational, classy and downright funny

Amid the Irish euphoria, Eamon Dunphy squeezed in a killer dig on Bastian Schweinsteiger

Shane Long reveals who got his match jersey after German goal-busting heroics

Everyone’s favourite (bald) referee gives stern take on Luke Shaw’s leg-breaking challenge

There was trouble in Stormont today over Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland’s Euro 2016 Qualifiers

Two French players believe Johnny Sexton’s kicking game has a major weakness

What were Henry Shefflin and AP McCoy doing with the Irish rugby team last night?

Cian Healy has surely had crazier birthday celebrations than this

“Just give me everything” – Conor McGregor lets loose on Las Vegas night out with Urijah Faber

Guardiola, Coutinho and Silva caught up in intriguing transfer triangle

Manchester United summer signing still unable to line out due to incredibly frustrating reason

Magic Moments: The best tackles, tries and plays from the Rugby World Cup

Sean O’Brien refuses to buy into France’s early mind games

England’s World Cup is going from bad to worse after allegations of wrongdoing

One Irish player, and a heap of Aussies, makes World Cup Team of the Week

The French media were far from impressed with “embarrassed” Ireland’s win over Italy

Johnny Sexton offers fascinating insight into the mind of a French rugby player

Sean O’Brien and Joe Schmidt give their take on THAT Peter O’Mahony tackle

Ireland rugby star Sean O’Brien offers his condolences to family of Adam Mangan

WATCH: Iain Henderson gives damn good Stephen Ferris impression against Italy

Paul O’Connell had a witty response when asked about England fans turning to Ireland

WATCH: Peter O’Mahony takes another stride to becoming an Irish rugby legend with huge, try-saving tackle

Player ratings for Ireland after Italy deliver Olympic-sized reality check

Conor Murray’s confident words demonstrate how far Ireland have come in just two years

One mortifying reason why England’s final World Cup match is far from a dead rubber

Further misery heading England’s way after petulant reaction to World Cup exit

The man of the match decision after England’s loss to Australia was truly astounding

Georgia ruffling New Zealand’s feathers cheered Paul O’Connell up no end

You’d go to war behind Sergio Parisse after these inspirational comments

State of the Nation: Ireland’s World Cup is about to get real

Robbie Henshaw posts evocative tribute to former schoolmate who passed away in 2009

MMA bedroom scraps proving as popular as ever in Ireland’s World Cup camp

Paul O’Connell gets misty-eyed as he reflects on the changes in rugby since his 2001 debut