Sean O’Riordan Private William Patrick Ryan was an unusually courageous man. Having fought and survived several bloody battles in the First World War, he then volunteered in its aftermath to exhume the dead for Christian burial, even though he could have been blown to pieces by unexploded shells.

Tom Hanks would be proud. A charity shop is saving Private Ryan’s medals for his relatives after a chance discovery made in an old jacket handed into it.

On Saturday night in New York, the best player in College Football will be handed the coveted Heisman Trophy.

Let’s take a quick head count of Munster’s starting XV against Ulster in the Heineken Cup quarter-final.

Winless Ireland slumped to another defeat in the Friends Provident Trophy - this time by six wickets to Middlesex – after being slayed by two former Emerald Isles internationals.