Ulster head coach Dan McFarland has revealed he was “gutted” when he lost out on the Connacht job to Pat Lam in 2013.

Mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor has withdrawn his application to register his ‘Notorious’ moniker as a trademark for selling whiskey and other alcoholic drinks across Europe.

Ulster Rugby got the head coach they wanted in Dan McFarland yesterday and the province is now hopeful the former Connacht man will take the reins much sooner than the mid-January date the Scottish Rugby Union are holding him to.

Ulster have confirmed the appointment of Dan McFarland as their new head coach.

Jack McGrath is reading nothing into Scotland’s poor Six Nations away record as Ireland prepare to face a visiting side this Saturday which is fast leaving behind a forgettable championship past.

“We know we’re going to have to be better than we were last Saturday.”

The loss to Argentina may be the defeat that itches away at Joe Schmidt more than any other but Ireland’s defeat to Scotland at the foothills of last season’s Six Nations was, in some respects, a far more frustrating affair.

Rory Scannell is set for his first start of the Guinness Pro14 campaign tonight as Munster go to Glasgow Warriors looking for a fourth win from four this season.

Cork producer Fionn Greger has served his time on blockbusters, but was happy to scale down for an abortion-related drama, writes Esther McCarthy

Fifty years ago sons of Glasgow marched on Lisbon, as Celtic became the first British team to win football’s European Cup. Now the city’s rugby Warriors are striving for their own European conquest — at the home of seemingly invincible Saracens.

A near-frozen Glasgow and an in-form Warriors provide yet another test of this Munster’s side mettle this evening as Rassie Erasmus’s players bid to reach the Champions Cup knockout rounds with a week to spare.

MUNSTER have been warned it may take some time to get used to life under Rassie Erasmus.

The contest to find Europe’s Strongest Man 2014 was held earlier this month in Leeds and was won by an Icelandic strongman called Hafþór Julius Bjornsson.

A top law firm has launched an investigation into a bogus memo that claims to have come from the company advising the public on paying the household charge.

ISAAC BOSS came off the bench to clinch Leinster’s place in the Heineken Cup last eight and leave them in the comfortable position of playing Montpellier at the RDS next week with only their seeding in the final stages at stake.

Glasgow 16 Leinster 23

Cardiff Blues 13 Glasgow 34

EUROPEAN kings Leinster made a nightmare start to the RaboDirect Pro12 after being blown away by the Ospreys in Swansea last night.

Passengers on a US flight which made an emergency landing at a military base after a sudden drop in cabin pressure took dramatic pictures of a hole in the aircraft.

Connacht 37 Glasgow 8

WASPS coach Tony Hanks was left “supremely disappointed” after watching his side turned in a poor performance in the 20-10 Heineken Cup defeat in Glasgow.

Munster 22 Glasgow 20

EDINBURGH made amends for last week’s defeat to Glasgow, ending their rivals’ four-game winning run in the process.

Edinburgh 28 Glasgow 17

GLASGOW WARRIORS’ French misery continued as their European dreams were shattered following a 36-10 loss to Toulouse last night.

Cardiff Blues 38 Glasgow 6

Glasgow 31 Ospreys 23

Glasgow 31 Ospreys 23

TONY HANKS was beaming after Wasps completed their first Heineken Cup win in Pool Six with a bonus-point 38-26 victory over Glasgow.

Glasgow Warriors 29 Munster 43

Leinster 20 Glasgow 14

Glasgow 29 Newport Gwent Dragons 25

Nine victims of a mid-air collision between a coastguard aircraft and a US Marine Corps helicopter were feared dead today as the investigation focused on how the crews failed to see each other in a heavily-used military training area.

The US Coastguard said one of its planes collided with a military helicopter off the Southern California coast early today.

Glasgow Warriors 30 Connacht 9

THE Ospreys closed in on a barren 2008-09 season with a victory intheir final home Magners League match of the season.

Glasgow 19 Ulster 20

Glasgow Warriors 19 Ulster 20

ENGLAND legend, Dean Richards, believes Ronan O’Gara should be the Lions test-match out-half against South Africa this summer, describing the Munster and Ireland No 10 as someone who can deliver in high pressure situations.

JAMES ARLIDGE celebrated becoming a father in style as Newport Gwent Dragons tore up the Magners League form book to extend their remarkable winning record in Glasgow.

An F-18 military jet crashed in a US neighbourhood today, sparking at least one house fire.

Bath 35 Glasgow 31

Newport Gwent Dragons 32 Glasgow Warriors 22