World Rugby has announced the match official appointments for the men’s Six Nations 2020 as the road to Rugby World Cup 2023 begins in earnest for the world’s top referees.

For weeks on end, a veritable posse of law enforcers queued up to hammer the warning home, that dangerous tackles meant instant dismissal.

Richard T Cooke is involved in organising the Music at the Maldron free gigs by Jimmy Crowley and others as part of the Mother Jones Festival in Cork, until Sunday.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was the notable absentee from the well-attended launch of the first biography of him.

This delicately poised Test series in Australia represents the best possible preparation Ireland could have hoped for a year out from the World Cup, writes Donal Lenihan.

Paul Williams was surprised to hear his name brought up in a Dáil debate about the quashing of penalty points. This was in late 2013, the Disclosures Tribunal heard yesterday.

An awful lot of people have been telling lies under oath at the Disclosures Tribunal. That’s according to the chairman of the inquiry, Judge Peter Charleton.

A Daily Mail journalist has told the Charleton Tribunal that she believed a colleague who allegedly told her a garda whistleblower was a child abuser was “being used” by somebody.

Former Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has told the Charleton Tribunal she “did not feel comfortable” in the presence of former garda press officer Superintendent David Taylor, and at “times he appeared to be a divisive individual”.

Irish Independent editor Fionnán Sheahan told his colleague Anne Harris that garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe was a paedophile, the Charleton tribunal has been told.

The former head of the Department of Justice denies it was inappropriate that the ex-Garda commissioner met a Dáil committee chairman to argue against a whistleblower giving evidence.

The official who was removed from Ireland's Grand Slam decider after attending an England training session has been appointed for Ireland's next game.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime.

A complaint about George Hook’s comments on rape victims on his Newstalk show has been upheld by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

Former tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald directly contacted the Garda commissioner in 2015 to raise concerns that issues relating to whistleblower Maurice McCabe were not being resolved.

Ireland were made to work hard at the Aviva Stadium this evening as they claimed a tight win over Fiji and a second win in the Guinness series.

Former Republic of Ireland international Lee Carsley remains tight-lipped about his prospects of becoming Birmingham City manager, having been asked to take charge of the club “until a suitable candidate comes in”.

There's a LOT.

There was another issue aired at the Charleton Tribunal yesterday, and once again it did not fall in favour of Sgt Maurice McCabe.

Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

On day 10 of the Disclosures Tribunal, crime reporter Paul Williams admits that he never checked out the story, writes Michael Clifford.

A senior garda officer has denied ever saying that garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe watched young girls at a school.

The Public Accounts Committee has hit out at what it says is a "profound professional disagreement" between senior members of the force.

At times during her evidence to the Disclosures Tribunal yesterday, the woman known as Ms D was emotional.

The father of the young woman who made allegations against garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe said he "almost collapsed" when he was first shown a false allegation of digital rape.

Latest: Pat Hickey has warned he'll decide if he'll sue after he clears his name.

Former President of the Olympic Council of Ireland Pat Hickey has claimed he has been treated as a world-class criminal.

If elements in the gardaí were intent on smearing Sgt Maurice McCabe they had something to use as the basis for attacking his character, writes Michael Clifford.

Michael Clifford deconstructs an interview by the woman at the centre of the Maurice McCabe/Tusla controversy and finds that it raises more questions than it answered.

The woman at the centre of the allegations against Maurice McCabe was the subject of some media interest in 2013 and 2014, leading to texts on the matter circulating around Garda HQ, writes Michael Clifford.

Exclusive footage of former drug lord John Gilligan making the most of his time spent in Portlaoise prison has been uncovered by TV3 documentary ‘Paul Williams: State of Fear’.

A new two-part documentary with journalist Paul Williams is to assess the war on crime that has been ongoing since the death of Veronica Guerin 20 years ago.

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England 45 Ireland 21: Twenty-one points was enough to win each of the two previous World Rugby U20 Championship finals and only twice has a team scored more than that and lost, but you got the impression at the AJ Bell Stadium on Saturday evening that no matter what Ireland scored, England would nab more.

A man has been arrested in England in connection with an incident that allegedly developed after a Domino's Pizza customer complained about his order.

Billy Paul, the jazz and soul singer best known for the chart-topping ballad Me And Mrs Jones, has died.

Munster crashed out of Europe for the second season in succession as they went down to 14-man Stade Francais in the French capital tonight.

Leicester Tigers 33 Stade Francais 20: Leicester Tigers got their European Rugby Champions Cup campaign off to a flying start with a four-try demolition of French champions Stade Francais.

Sinn Féin’s child protection officer has claimed a backbench Government TD is only raising concerns over the alleged cover-up of rapes by the Provisional IRA to improve her chances in the next general election.

Limerick photographer Gerry Andrews tells Richard Fitzpatrick some of the stories behind his incredible pictures from the city’s Milk Market in the 1970s

A man who gave evidence in the murder trial of Catherine Nevin cannot continue a legal action against a newspaper over an article stating he tried to sell it photographs of him and Mrs Nevin naked in bed together, the High Court has ruled.

The Menu loves chips and The Menu also loves Limerick.

A man is fighting for his life in hospital after he was shot in the face outside a creche in the Donaghmede area of Dublin.

A journalist involved in the publication of the Anglo Tapes has said that the Quinn family had no role to play in the leaking of the material.

The liquidators of IBRC identified the entire Quinn Family and its advisers as potential sources of the leaked Anglo Tapes.

Thieves have returned electronic accessories they stole from a charity.

Joe Schmidt’s side won their third European trophy in successive years and gave Connacht reason to celebrate also as the Westerners gained entry to next season’s Heineken Cup courtesy of their neighbours to the east.