In fact, Easterby’s toughness was already a distinguishing feature of his game as an underage international. Eddie O’Sullivan ...

Ireland may have been planning to open against England without Dan Sheehan in the mix, the hooker having been left behind as ...

Gatland, who gave Easterby his Irish debut against Scotland in the 2000 Six Nations, also believes that staying outside the ...

Peter Stringer, Ronan O’Gara, ‘The Bull’ Hayes and Shane Horgan: 25 years later, they’d still be recognised in the street by ...

Between his illustrious playing career and subsequent stint as an assistant coach, Simon Easterby has spent 19 years as part ...

Things look a little bit different this time around and yet the switch over from Andy Farrell to Simon Easterby — while Farrell does his Lions gig — ought to really be quite seamless.

Simon Easterby stuck with the tried and tested in his first squad as interim coach of two-time defending Six Nations ...

IRFU performance director David Humphreys has "absolutely no doubt" about Simon Easterby as he prepares to lead Ireland in ...

Easterby and Caelan Doris flew from Rome to Lisbon after the Six Nations launch, from where they drove to Quinta do Lago. As ...

Simon Easterby will take charge of Ireland while Andy Farrell is on British and Irish Lions duty It is not quite a new era for Ireland heading into this Six Nations, but it does feel like a new ...

Ireland interim head coach Simon Easterby says that his team are more motivated by improving, rather than worrying about the ...

Simon Easterby has underlined the importance of a game-changing backup fly-half and suggested Ireland’s No. 10 could change ...