It was not just the Wallabies downed in Australia at the weekend by men who had travelled halfway across the globe.

IRELAND is to get its first traditional copper-domed Tibetan Buddhist temple.

EGOS were bruised and Gavin Henson was “absolutely devastated”, but Clive Woodward had no room for sentiment in naming the Lions side to play Southland, which by attrition broke the news to half his squad that they were not in the first Test.

PARENTS have criticised a good luck phone text campaign for the Irish rugby team as a “money-making racket”.