Jack Carty crowned a glorious week as he celebrating his call-up to the Irish squad by scoring the match-winning try three minutes from time to send Connacht into the quarter-finals of the European Challenge Cup.

The prospect of a shock victory was but a false promise when Ireland took a 12 points lead into the break in the opening match of the World Rugby U-20 Championship in Perpignan.

Haitian politicians confirmed President Michel Martelly’s choice for a new prime minister, ending a nearly two-month impasse that had hampered the country’s efforts to rebuild from the devastating 2010 earthquake.