# azzurri - Friday 26 February, 2021
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
The hosts haven’t beaten Ireland since the Six Nations in March 2013 in Rome.
# azzurri - Thursday 25 February, 2021
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
Head coach Franco Smith has selected the same XV that started in their defeat to England.
# azzurri - Sunday 18 October, 2020
# Structure
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# Structure
As for the prospects of Georgia replacing Italy in the Six Nations, well, talk is cheap.
# azzurri - Tuesday 13 October, 2020
# Blue Flu
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# Blue Flu
The sides meet in their refixed Six Nations game next week.
# azzurri - Tuesday 8 September, 2020
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
The Italians are now three points behind Ireland with one game in hand.
# azzurri - Monday 7 September, 2020
# Oranje Crushed
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# Oranje Crushed
Andy Robertson was instrumental in Scotland’s 2-1 win.
# azzurri - Friday 4 October, 2019
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
Roma’s brilliant midfielder Nicolo Zaniolo misses out, however.
# Off
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# Off
South Africa wrapped up the bonus point after Lovotti and Quaglio combined to spear Duane Vermeulen.
# azzurri - Tuesday 6 August, 2019
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
Defence coach Marius Goosen believes it is paramount that the Azzurri hang onto O’Shea.
# azzurri - Tuesday 14 May, 2019
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
Irishman O’Shea has been in charge since 2016.
# azzurri - Friday 22 February, 2019
# Nugget
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# Nugget
The explosive Leinster hooker will make just a 10th start for Ireland, his first in the Six Nations.
# azzurri - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
# 6 Nations
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# 6 Nations
Conor O’Shea will bring his squad together for training camp on 20 January.
# azzurri - Saturday 16 June, 2018
# Kobe Beef
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# Kobe Beef
Conor O’Shea’s men dominated the early stages and took a 19-3 lead before Japan were stirred into a reaction.
# azzurri - Monday 14 May, 2018
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
The 64-year-old left his role with Zenit at the weekend.
# azzurri - Tuesday 24 April, 2018
# Carlo Rising
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# Carlo Rising
But the Azzurri have insisted there’s no front-runner yet.
# azzurri - Tuesday 27 February, 2018
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
The former Juventus midfielder has held the role once before between 2014 and 2016.
# azzurri - Saturday 10 February, 2018
# Make It Count
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# Make It Count
The 24-year-old is happy to learn and teach to knit Ireland’s back-line together.
# azzurri - Friday 9 February, 2018
# Mental Skills
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# Mental Skills
The loosehead prop took a look at his game in order to get back to enjoying himself on the field again.
# azzurri - Tuesday 23 January, 2018
# 6 Nations
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# 6 Nations
We caught up with the Azzurri boss as a daunting Six Nations schedule looms, but Pro14 performances have shown that there is something brewing in Italy.
# azzurri - Saturday 2 December, 2017
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
Presumably Ireland would be given a spot forever too?
# azzurri - Wednesday 15 November, 2017
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
It is the first time in 60 years that the four-time champions have missed out on the tournament .
# azzurri - Tuesday 14 November, 2017
# Ciao
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# Ciao
The Azzurri veterans confirmed they’re stepping aside after seeing their hopes of playing at the 2018 World Cup dashed by Sweden.
# azzurri - Sunday 12 November, 2017
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
Sweden head to Milan with a one-goal advantage.
# azzurri - Saturday 11 November, 2017
# Comeback
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# Comeback
McKinley scored an important second half penalty as Italy earned their first Test win of 2017.
# azzurri - Thursday 22 June, 2017
# Moore The Merrier
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# Moore The Merrier
Conor O’Shea is still ruing a missed opportunity against Fiji as he takes his team to Brisbane.
# azzurri - Saturday 11 March, 2017
# 6 Nations
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# 6 Nations
Gael FIckou and Virimi Vakatawa were on form to inflict another defeat on Conor O’Shea’s Azzurri .
# azzurri - Friday 10 March, 2017
# No Ruck
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# No Ruck
Conor O’Shea’s no ruck plan may be back tomorrow against France.
# azzurri - Thursday 9 March, 2017
# Team-sheets
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# Team-sheets
Conor O’Shea has made three changes from the impressive performance in Twickenham.
# azzurri - Monday 27 February, 2017
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
“We will dig our way out of this hole by thinking differently..”
# azzurri - Saturday 11 February, 2017
# Liveblog
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# Liveblog
We went minute-by-minute as Ireland ran in nine tries against Italy in Rome.
# azzurri - Thursday 9 February, 2017
# Blue Sky Thinking
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# Blue Sky Thinking
Italy’s head coach says his side have ‘a mountain to climb’ against his home nation this weekend.
# azzurri - Monday 6 February, 2017
# Talisman
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# Talisman
The focal point of Italy’s game will be in place this weekend.
# azzurri - Saturday 27 August, 2016
# Remarkable
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# Remarkable
The 17-year-old only made his AC Milan debut last October.
# azzurri - Monday 20 June, 2016
# Azzurri
From The42
# Azzurri
Midfielder Daniele De Rossi says they are out for maximum points when they take on the Boys in Green on Wednesday.
# azzurri - Friday 25 March, 2016
# Irish Abroad
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# Irish Abroad
O’Shea will take the IRFU’s Stephen Aboud with him to oversee development in the country.
# azzurri - Wednesday 20 January, 2016
# Azzurri
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# Azzurri
Sergio Parisse will lead the Italian challenge again.
# azzurri - Tuesday 1 December, 2015
# Wild Eyes
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# Wild Eyes
The Italian striker lit up the 1990 World Cup but everything unraveled afterwards.
# azzurri - Thursday 19 November, 2015
# Whatever Happened To Him?
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# Whatever Happened To Him?
Inevitably, Gianluigi Buffon kept a clean-sheet in November 1995.
# azzurri - Sunday 4 October, 2015
# Rwc 15
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# Rwc 15
Keith Earls became Ireland’s all-time leading World Cup try-scorer with first-half try
# Liveblog
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# Liveblog
A group of familiar faces stand between Ireland and a place in the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals. Come and get it.
A brief shower or two this afternoon
Max: 8 °C
Min: 1 °C
Periods of sun, a shower in the p.m.
Max: 11 °C
Min: 3 °C
Times of clouds and sun
Max: 11 °C
Min: 1 °C
