A man who was wrongfully arrested the same night his fiancée was savagely beaten by another man in a random street attack has been awarded more than €1.1m by a High Court jury.

Leinster coach Joe Schmidt believes Shane Jennings is deserving of his place in Declan Kidney’s World Cup squad, even if his inclusion only came after David Wallace suffered a knee injury against England on Saturday.

SUCH was the magnitude of this performance that Leinster travelled to the Welsh valleys on Saturday with their Heineken Cup title hanging by a thread and yet they departed with their grip seemingly tighter than ever.