Michael Cantillon
@mike_cantillon
Irish Sports Journalist for @SkySports, @SkySportsRugby | Worked at Rio2016, Japan RWC19, France RWC23, Australia Lions2025 | Own views etc.
How Andy Farrell's tourists pulled off greatest comeback in British and Irish Lions history: skysports.com/rugby-union/ne…

'Have no regrets': Has Farrell got big calls right as Lions go for power? - skysports.com/rugby-union/ne…
A strong-looking Lions side. Only four players of 38-player travelling squad won't have been involved yet after the opening two games: Keenan (calf), Gibson-Park (glute), Kinghorn (Toulouse, Top 14 final) and James Ryan (carrying something?)...
BREAKING: The British & Irish Lions team to take on Western Force, live on Sky Sports this Saturday! 🏉🦁
Sharks behaviour: the verbals, playacting, winking, time wasting, actual staff and bench booing a kicker, all clearly in the mould of Erasmus. No surprise he would have watched and had no issue. The man is a joke…
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If SA rugby fans wonder why their teams and supporters are disliked, look at Hendrikse's behaviour and look how it is defended. He wasn't provoked. He was just being a d*ck. In the law book, if shout at a player taking a kick during the 80, it would be order to be retaken.
Lawrence Dallagio reflects on his British and Irish Lions career and shares his tour memories 🏉
How on earth has Underhill avoided red there? A monumentally poor piece of officiating from Davidson - in a final! Lyon will have big complaints at the end of this one you'd imagine...
Only this iteration of Munster could lose Nash, Casey, Coombes, O'Mahony, Hodnett a week after Euro QF, plus Jager within 15 mins, & a week after that, lose Ahern, Wycherley, Murray with POM, Hodnett, Jager still out - make it 4 seasons in a row now of insane level of injuries?
Here is your Munster side for tomorrow night's #URC clash in Cardiff 👊 🔄 7 changes as Mike Haley, Calvin Nash, Craig Casey & Gavin Coombes return from injury/illness. 💪 Michael Milne makes his debut. 2⃣ Academy duo Ronan Foxe & Ruadhán Quinn in squad. #SUAF 🔴 | #CARvMUN
From a scared 19-year-old who couldn’t feel his legs to a Lions flanker 💪 Wales' Dan Lydiate looks back on his journey to the 2013 tour of Australia 🦁
Great to speak to @dan_lydiate on his remarkable career and British and Irish Lions memories: Lydiate: From scared 19-year-old who couldn't feel his legs to Lions flanker: skysports.com/rugby-union/ne…

In a game lost by 3 points, Munster incorrectly reduced to 14 for 14 mins due to colossal error by officials. Likely ends any hope of home QF & under pressure to make Europe. How did O'Donovan & touchline staff not march on the pitch to stop it? They mustn't have known either...
An UNBELIEVABLE no-look pass by Blues' Hoskins Sotutu to set up a try in the Super Rugby! 🏉😮
Munster signing the likes of Michael Milne and JJ Hanrahan for next season, Leinster - with 11 central contracts, Snyman from Munster and Slimani - are now signing Rieko Ioane too...are we still pretending this is normal?
120 game Blues veteran Rieko Ioane has taken up the sabbatical clause in his contract and will spend next season at Leinster 🍀 We will have him back in (the right) blue in 2027. Still got work to do this year 🫡
Stunning result for Munster, who barring the shock of the round if Ulster win tomorrow, have no reward at all in having to go to Bordeaux in the quarters - that side of the draw is a brute. To hold out and win it after such a poor penalty try call late on too was massive
Great to go down @lionsofficial memory lane with @KearneyRob recently 🦁🏉 Rob Kearney: The Gaelic footballer who played for the future of the Lions: skysports.com/rugby-union/ne…

"There were genuine question marks about the future of the Lions" 🦁❓ Rob Kearney looks back on the 2009 Lions tour 🆕
Despite calls from pretty much every corner now for Crowley to start in Rome, the quotes and tone of this suggest to me Prendergast is going to start again 🤷♂️ It's one of the most bizarre situations I can remember covering Ireland. What must Crowley be thinking at all...
🗣️ '[Prendergast] is aware of some of the stuff he could've done better...' Andrew Goodman discusses Sam Prendergast and Jack Crowley's attitudes in camp, and how they attack space together when they're both on the pitch. | 🏉 Rugby w/ @BankOfIreland | #NeverStopCompeting
Unsure if Nash picked up an injury vs Edinburgh, but there were pics of him in IRE training this week. The Leinsterfication of Ireland continues in earnest with left-footer named on right wing ahead of Nash, who by all accounts played well vs Scotland before losing his place...
Our team to face France in Dublin! 💪 #TeamOfUs
🗣️ "It's disappointment and misery for me" Danny Care discusses never making a British & Irish Lions appearance ❌
From mountain bike champion to Lions tighthead prop 🦁 Read the story of Scotland's Zander Fagerson here 🏴👇