Ireland's leading male and female rugby players were honoured at the 2018 Zurich Irish Rugby Players Awards at Dublin's Clayton Hotel on Wednesday night. Check out some photos from the ceremony.

On an historic day for World Rugby, 13 new Union and regional association representatives have been welcomed onto an expanded World Rugby Council, the sport's highest decision-making body.

Munster and Ireland winger Keith Earls was awarded the title of Zurich Players' Player of the Year for 2018 by his fellow players at tonight's Zurich Irish Rugby Awards ceremony.

It was a breakthrough weekend for the Ireland Women's Sevens squad at the Canada 7s in Langford, as they claimed sixth place for their best ever finish as a core team in a HSBC World Rugby Women's Sevens Series tournament.

The IRFU is pleased to announce that 38 clubs, across all four provinces, will host our 'Give It A Try' Summer 2018 Programme to introduce girls aged 10-14 to rugby in a fun environment.

After missing out in Kitakyushu three weeks ago, the Ireland Women broke back into the Cup quarter-final line-up with a strong opening day at the HSBC World Rugby Women's Sevens Series tournament in Langford.

World Rugby has launched the host selection process for Women's Rugby World Cup 2021, which will feature exciting format changes, reflecting the international federation's commitment to accelerate the development of the Women's game.

Anthony Eddy, the IRFU Director of Women's and Sevens Rugby, has named the Ireland Women's Sevens squad to compete at the Canada 7s tournament in Langford this Saturday and Sunday.

Single-day tickets for July's Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco, across a range of seating categories, are now available for each day of the three-day tournament, giving fans more choice than ever before ahead of the first Rugby World Cup event to be held in the USA.

History will be made in San Francisco in July when the Ireland Men's and Women's Sevens teams compete in the same Rugby World Cup Sevens competition for the first time. Both sides qualified for the tournament last summer via the Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series.

The Ireland Under-18s made history by winning bronze at the Rugby Europe U-18 Women's Sevens Championship in Vichy yesterday, with Lucinda Kinghan's try completing a memorable comeback win over Italy in the 3rd-4th place play-off.

Ireland strung together three wins, scoring 21 tries in the process, to top Pool D on the opening day of the Rugby Europe Under-18 Women's Sevens Championship in Vichy. Matthew Wilkie's side will play Russia, the Pool A runners-up, in the Cup quarter-finals tomorrow morning (11.42am local time/10.42am Irish time).

The Ireland Sevens management have confirmed the 12 players to represent Ireland at the Rugby Europe Under-18 Women's Sevens Championship and Youth Olympic qualifier in Vichy, France this weekend.

Ireland star Paula Fitzpatrick crossed for two tries as St. Mary's won the Women's All-Ireland League promotion play-off final 20-10 in Portlaoise, although Tralee's resilient performance showed that they are also heading in the right direction.

Ireland's consistency of performance improved on the final day of the HSBC World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in Kitakyushu. They achieved their first series win over Canada at the ninth attempt, before running the USA very close in a Challenge Trophy final that could have gone either way.

The Women's All-Ireland League trophy was retained by table-topping UL Bohemians last Saturday after another memorable encounter with arch rivals Old Belvedere. Check out the best of the action from the league final at Portlaoise RFC.

The Zurich Irish Rugby Players Awards, one of the biggest nights in Irish sport, will take place on Wednesday, May 16 at the Clayton Hotel in Ballsbridge. The nominees were revealed today with Keith Earls, Tadhg Furlong, Conor Murray and Jonathan Sexton battling it out for the Players' Player of the Year honour.

With less than a hundred days to go to Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018, the team of referees who will oversee the exhilarating action at AT&T Park in San Francisco has been named by World Rugby.

Ireland began day one of the HSBC World Rugby Women's Sevens Series tournament in Kitakyushu on a real high, defeating close rivals Spain in a thrilling five-try clash, but their challenge for a Cup quarter-final berth petered out with losses to number one seeds Australia and China, the recent Hong Kong qualifier winners.

Irish Rugby TV caught up with Old Belvedere Women's captain Fiona O'Brien and head coach Josh Brown to chat about 'Belvo's season to date and preview this afternoon's All-Ireland League final against UL Bohemians at Portlaoise RFC (kick-off 1pm).