As a new United Rugby Championship (URC) season approaches, we take a closer look at the physical makeup of the 16 sides competing for silverware.
We are now midway through the URC campaign, with all 16 teams having played the first nine of their 18 regular season matches.
Every team in the URC has been busy sorting transfers ahead of the upcoming summer break. The Irish provinces have been using their academies...
Connacht have confirmed the names of all twelve players leaving them at end of the current season, adding that a squad of 44 has so far been assembled for next season.
Former Ireland international Matt Healy has announced he will retire from professional rugby at the end of the season following a stellar club career in which he became an all-time record try-scorer at Connacht.
Ospreys head coach Toby Booth says his side will have to adapt to the Sportsground's notoriously inclement weather conditions if they are to compete with Connacht.
The movement of players from Leinster to the other provinces has at times been a source of frustration for the club.
Scarlets’ swashbuckling attack earned them a 20-14 Guinness PRO14 win over Connacht in heavy wind and rain at the Sportsground.
Tadhg Beirne will play his first match in 9 months when Munster take on a much-changed Connacht XV in the Guinness PRO14 on Sunday.
Connacht came within metres of a late match-winning try but Montpellier held on to win a pulsating Heineken Champions Cup clash 35-29 at the GGL Stadium.