Northampton kept alive their hopes of playing in the European Champions Cup next season with a hard-fought 21-15 victory over Connacht in the second play-off at Franklin's Gardens.

It has been one of Cork’s most enduring businesses for nearly a century and with its sterling reputation, who is to say Irish International Trading Corporation won’t be around for another 100 years?

Irish triathlon and duathlon athletes raced in Turkey and Australia over the weekend. 

Munster 22 Connacht 16

A LIVELY Ulster Bank AIL Division 1B battle at Dubarry Park culminated in a morale-boosting Buccaneers win despite playing with 14 men for nearly an hour.

A FIRST-HALF penalty try, supplemented by 14 points from the right boot of Scott Deasy, steered the Munster ‘A’ team to a workmanlike 19-3 victory over their Connacht counterparts at the Sportsground last night.

IRELAND U20 coach Mike Ruddock has made eight changes to the squad which defeated Italy last week for tomorrow night’s Six Nations clash with France (Dubarry Park, 7.30pm).

The Leinster/Ulster and Connacht/Munster teams for the O2 Challenge, the historic first game in Aviva Stadium, has been named.

A SURVEY of businesses in the south-east has found employers feel that employment equality legislation serves as a barrier to the employment of people with mental health problems.

STRIKING port workers in Waterford were yesterday planning peace talks to end a fortnight-old dispute centred on pay and conditions.