Cheetahs 38 Leinster 19: So much for the failed experiment, the useless additions, the pointless expansion.

It took a while in coming, but this was a more than decent start to the new Guinness Pro14 season for Leo Cullen’s Leinster as they emerged deserved winners over the Dragons.

European Union nationals could "tip the balance" towards Scottish independence if a second referendum was held before Brexit, academics have said.

AROUND the year 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, and the world has never been the same since. Gutenberg knew, instinctively at least, that paper never refuses ink, and began printing indulgences even before he printed the Bible, the first book ever printed.

 

Britain’s banks are not reporting to regulators the full extent of cyber attacks, for fear of punishment or bad publicity, bank executives and providers of security systems say.

MIRANDA KERR has got engaged to Snapchat co-founder EVAN SPIEGEL.

An IT worker conned his colleagues and tag-rugby teammates out of nearly €8,000 by telling them he could get them tickets to a Conor McGregor fight.

Blaise Matuidi’s late strike steered France to a 3-2 victory over Holland on an emotional night at the Amsterdam Arena.

Glasgow Warriors 12 Leinster 6: Connacht can sleep easily this weekend after Leinster failed to knock the Galway men off their top perch in the Guinness Pro12 last night at Scotstoun with defeat to Glasgow in a match that produced not a single try.

Fathers of children with an intellectual disability are very keen to be involved in their children’s lives, a major nursing conference in Dublin heard.

With most of the province’s established stars in the Ireland camp preparing for the Six Nations, a number of younger players are being given a chance to shine in tomorrow’s PRO12 game.

A polar bear is settling in to his new home in Doncaster after an unexpected encounter with a group of shocked refugees in Calais.

Leinster 37 Dragons 12: Isa Nacewa and Fergus McFadden led by example at the RDS on Saturday, when their combined tally of 27 points helped Leinster to a comprehensive victory over Newport Gwent Dragons in the Guinness Pro12.

Youngsters Garry Ringrose and Cathal Marsh scored their first Guinness PRO12 tries as Leinster ran out 37-13 bonus-point winners over Newport Gwent Dragons at the RDS.

Edinburgh 16 Leinster 9: Leinster’s hopes of opening their Guinness Pro12 season with a victory were shattered last night by an Edinburgh side that showed more flair with ball in hand and which had a more aggressive back row.

The Human Leagure credit their home town with ensuring the fane game of the 1980s never went to their heads, writes Ed Power

Kym Marsh wants to "play other parts".

A late night rendezvous in New Zealand could cost two office workers their jobs after their steamy encounter was witnessed by up to 200 patrons at a pub across the road and posted online.

Kym Marsh was reported to the police after hosting a loud karaoke party.

Business leaders pushing for frictionless free trade have something new to worry about: the potential break-up of the internet.

Wasps director of rugby Dai Young is celebrating the capture of Leinster fly-half Jimmy Gopperth for next season, believing the English side will be getting one of the best kickers in Europe.

Famous for playing the role of the superhero Birdman (15A), aging actor Riggan Thomas (Michael Keaton) tries to reinvent himself as a serious artist by directing and starring in a Broadway production of an adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short stories.

A movie actor attempts to resuscitate his career in Birdman, Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones are destined for Oscar nominations in heart-rending biopic The Theory of Everything, and a vengeful spirit returns to terrorise a class of evacuees in The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.

A leading medical expert has branded as "grotesque" the prospect of continuing to maintain a brain-dead pregnant woman on life- support while the unborn child she is carrying has almost no hope of survival.

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ULSTER BANK LEAGUE DIVISION 1A:

Everyone involved in this should be proud of themselves. RIP Sheila Marsh.

David Marsh

John Gosden is under no illusions about the task facing The Fugue as she aims to follow up last month’s Royal Ascot triumph in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown today.

Irish art and collectibles among 500 items from the Charlie Hennessy estate, Des O’Sullivan reports.

Kym Marsh was "gutted" her daughter was axed from 'Britain's Got Talent'.

Leinster ‘A’ 44 Leeds Carnegie 17

Kym Marsh has called Stephanie Waring "bitter".

Leinster A 47 Munster A 15.