WATERFORD firm Dunhill Cuisine has signed a €1.5 million deal with SuperValu.

TRAINERS Charlie Swan and Tony Martin took the training honours at Limerick yesterday, Swan doubling-up for champion owner J P McManus with Prince Of Fire and Rourke’s Cross while Martin combined with Ruby Walsh to register a handicap hurdle double with Redera and Somatic.

THIS is not so much an obituary for the present Munster rugby squad, bloody and bowed and beaten today, but a warm vote of thanks to a great team of warriors for all the sporting entertainment and thrills they have given us over the past decade and more.

Ronan O’Gara has been given six weeks to marshal his defence to a property deal that could cost him tens of thousands.

Liam Gallagher's new band, Beady Eye, have released the first glimpse of their music online.

THIS Irish rugby squad is fast becoming a victim of its own success with expectation levels at home at an all time high coming into this year’s Six Nations. We have also become a treasured scalp for even the top teams. Nothing illustrated this more than the sight of a French side doing a lap of honour after beating Ireland in Paris.

AFTER THREE successive defeats at the hands of Argentina a win of any kind was most welcome.

GREGOR TOWNSEND was never one to lavish praise on opposing out halves during his time as Scotland’s number 10.

WALLABY captain Stirling Mortlock will recommend his squad undergo an acclimatisation process in advance of next year’s World Cup to deal with potentially bad weather.

Leinster 57 Treviso 17

Munster 32 Wasps 37