A seasoned journalist with over two decades of experience in both news and sports journalism. He has broken front-page stories for national newspapers and his articles have featured in The Sunday Times, The Irish Mail on Sunday, NZ Herald, The Sun, UK Daily Mail, The Mirror, Film Ireland and Rugby365, among others. Outside of journalism, Ian holds a master's degree in Film Studies from UCD and has produced and executive produced several rugby documentaries. Based in Ireland.
England U20 player ratings: The second semi-final of the World Rugby Junior World Championship was set to be a cracker...
South Africa U20 player ratings: The second semi-final of the World Rugby U20 Championship was billed as a blockbuster, with South…
England have called up Newcastle Red Bulls scrum-half Raffi Quirke as injury cover for Alex Mitchell ahead of Saturday’s final N…
Rassie Erasmus has defended a bold selection policy after a much-changed Springbok side survived a chaotic 42-28 victory over Scot…
Springboks player ratings: The blistering start from Rassie Erasmus' men suggested this might be a long afternoon for Scotland as …
The Springboks have been forced into a late change ahead of their Test against Scotland after Canan Moodie was ruled out.
Fiji scrumhalf Simione Kuruvoli was handed a rare permanent red card by referee Hollie Davidson after a mindless kicking incident …
Japan player ratings: While Ireland ultimately emerged with a 36-20 bonus-point victory to remain top of the Northern Hemisphere p…
Ireland player ratings: Against Eddie Jones Japan, nothing less than a convincing win will have been expected from Ireland, despit…
Scotland have been forced into a late squad change ahead of Saturday's Nations Championship clash with South Africa after in-form …
Rassie Erasmus has rung the changes for the Springboks' Nations Championship clash against Scotland in Pretoria, making 10 alterat…
Ireland will be forced into at least one change for Saturday's second game of the Nations Championship after Jeremy Loughman was s…
Fiji have been dealt a double injury blow after Semi Radradra and Tim Hoyt both left the field during Saturday's 39-24 defeat to W…
In the lead-up to the Springboks playing England in the opening round of the Nations Championship, the South African public had sp…
Spain U20 player Mateo Aragón has been banned for seven matches after an independent disciplinary committee upheld a citing for r…
Argentina player ratings: Los Pumas started with menace, power and invention at Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes in Cordoba, only to l…
Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus has revealed a growing injury list after South Africa’s 45-21 Nations Championship victory over …
Ireland player ratings: Andy Farrell's side went into this contest against the Wallabies in their inaugural Nations Championship m…
France player ratings: Fabien Galthie had to select a team that was without any Toulouse or Montpellier players but it was the Fre…
The World Rugby Nations Cup gets underway on 4 July, with the inaugural edition of the new second-tier international competition k…
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