A weekend of historic dimension has set the tectonic plates of the old game spinning as never before.

For the second week running, an elite referee opted out of giving a straight red for what appeared to be an open-and-shut case

Up in the glass box, O’Gara rummaged through the debris hoping to find a reason to believe it wasn't as bad as it looked, in the way a drowning man clutches at any old straw

The Grand Slam gods have played some dirty tricks in their time but never quite as many as they rained down on Ireland at Murrayfield.

If Andy Farrell's side manage a clean sweep, it'll hit the other nations in the pocket as well. 

The showdown between the game's top two teams had it all on Saturday. 

Of all the Grand Old Men of the Six Nations, Johnny Sexton is now the grandest, undeniably so

The province's home-and-away thrashing of Gloucester amounted to 106-14, 16 touch downs forcing their Premiership opponents to take up a default position behind their own posts once every ten minutes.

What's the point of the top competition now, the performance of the round and a strange fixture in Italy

As if being top of the planetary pile isn’t enough, Ireland can now claim to be global leaders in the hazardous art of keeping all 15 players on the field. Right now, nobody does it better.