Donnacha Ryan is, as is often the case, in jovial form as he parks his considerable frame into what looks like the smallest of chairs at Carton House. Just named in Ireland’s second row for today’s Six Nations battle with France, the conversation is cheery and wide-ranging.

USA: Some South Carolina high school students have started an online petition to bring back a teacher who resigned after a student spread a nude picture of her through text messages and social media.

A man told his estranged wife and her mother “they’d be sorry” before pulling a handgun from his coat pocket and shooting both women dead at a Georgia hospital as horrified people watched in the waiting room.