The Rugby Football Union are to investigate whether Saracens director of rugby Brendan Venter should face charges of bringing the game into disrepute for his comments about referees.

Wasps 25 Leeds Carnegie 17

Ulster 14 Edinburgh 20

A former Sinn Féin mayor of Derry is to join the party’s first three Assembly representatives on the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

Bristol 20 London Irish 21

Oscar winner Hilary Swank and actor husband Chad Lowe have separated after more than eight years of marriage.

A loyalist political party was today unveiling five basic principles as part of its manifesto for this month’s Northern Ireland Assembly Election.

People in Northern Ireland have lost faith with the Good Friday Agreement because of a failure to implement it properly, a loyalist party was due to hear today.

KINSALE will benefit to the tune of €2.5 million as the Sovereign’s Cup Regatta gets underway today.

TWO races were sailed at Kinsale on Easter Monday in the Kevin O’Leary Nissan April League series and now it is down to the wire for some as they face into the final race on Saturday. The influence of Munster’s rug

The Progressive Unionist Party has announced plans to run 11 candidates in the upcoming elections to the Northern Assembly.

OLYMPIC sailor Mark Mansfield burst into the Glaxo SmithKline winter series at the Royal Cork YC and showed a clean stern to the twenty-three boat fleet in the second race of the event.