The future of top-level European rugby competition finally took a tentative step towards a resolution after a “positive and constructive” meeting in Paris yesterday.

A doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” fabricated rugby injury scandal will face a medical disciplinary hearing today.

THE European Rugby Cup (ERC) — the company in charge of Rugby’s Heineken European Cup — has reported a €2 million drop in revenue, according to reported accounts.

TOP rugby player Frankie Sheahan is a role model for asthmatics despite his latest brush with controversy, the Asthma Society said yesterday.