Last Saturday’s victory in Cardiff was a moment and a spectacle to savour for Irish rugby but the stakes will be even higher in the Aviva on Sunday, a win and Ireland will not only be favourites for the championship but can dream of another Grand Slam.

Kerry have not requested a change to the 2pm throw-in time for Sunday’s Allianz Football League clash with Dublin in Killarney, even though it clashes with Ireland’s Six Nations rugby meeting with England (3pm).

Ireland’s U20s captured their share of the headlines on a dramatic weekend for Six Nations rugby in France when they dug deep for a thrilling victory over Les Bleus, surviving a pulsating finale at the Stade des Alpes, Grenoble on Saturday.

THE broadcasting authority has decided not to cite Ivan Yates for remarking on air that Irish and Welsh rugby supporters share a hatred of the English. The remark was made on the Newstalk 106-108fm breakfast show prior to the Six Nations game between Ireland and Wales.

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan has defended his plan to move future Heineken Cup and Six Nations rugby matches to free-to-air television.

CASH-STRAPPED RTÉ will have to pay out up to €10 million to broadcast the soccer World Cup and the Six Nations Rugby games this year.

UK department store chain John Lewis today said a busy schedule of televised sporting events contributed to a 1.4% decline in sales last week.

RTÉ star Kathryn Thomas complained to advertising standards watchdogs after being slighted in an ad for broadband.

A TICKET for the Gaelic football match at Croke Park which ended in the notorious Bloody Sunday massacre by British troops reached more than double its expected value at auction yesterday.

Anglo-Irish relations have never been better, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told British and Irish politicians in Dublin tonight.

The plug will finally be pulled on the Stormont Assembly if a working administration is not formed in Belfast by the end of March, the Irish and British governments warned tonight.

LAWS banning touts from selling tickets at exorbitant prices are to be reviewed by the Government to prevent fans being ripped off.

DECLAN KIDNEY could come face-to-face with his former boss Eddie O'Sullivan in next season's Six Nations tournament as an advisor to Wales coach Mike Ruddock.

SCOTLAND’S battered pride was dealt another blow at the Stade de France yesterday afternoon as Ian McGeechan’s men collapsed to their second heavy RBS Six Nations Championship defeat in succession with a 38-3 defeat to France.

England v Ireland

Ireland take on the might of England at Twickenham at 2.30pm today in the Six Nations Championship with both teams looking to continue their winning starts to the season.

Teams for Scotland versus England, Lloyds TSB Six Nations Championship, Murrayfield, tomorrow, 4pm.