Eddie Butler, commentating on Jonathan Sexton’s game-winning kick in Paris for the BBC, said Ireland were only just approaching the point where a drop goal was becoming a possibility when Conor Murray fired the ball back one last time.

TV3 set its stall out on Ireland AM by booking a stylist to select the perfect match outfit. These people know Rugby Country alright.

Niyi Adeolokun scored a first-half hat-trick as Challenge Cup Pool Five leaders Connacht ended the group campaign with a win over Oyonnax.

Girvan Dempsey sat on the bench in Murrayfield the day Leinster claimed a first Heineken Cup.

Swapping high summer in Sydney for the winter cold of the English East Midlands might not seem a palatable prospect, never mind for a job that on face value appears something of a hiding to nothing.

TV3 is to change its name as part of a major rebranding of the station later this year.

Halloween. A long and spooky evening is in store for Australia, it seems.

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Ireland’s fears over Rob Kearney’s fitness have eased but the full-back remains a doubt for Sunday’s World Cup Pool clash with Italy.

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The estimable voices of BBC and RTÉ are on the outside looking in this time, with TV3 and ITV exclusive television rights holders. What type of armchair experience awaits us then? Brendan O’Brien finds out

When 34-year-old Tom Court considers how much time he might have left as a professional rugby player, he looks no further than former Irish international Peter Stringer for inspiration.

Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey return for a third season of House of Cards on Netflix from Friday.

About 300 people are diagnosed with a brain tumour every year — high profile examples include singers Russell Watson and Sheryl Crow, who both survived.

Shane Logan and David Humphreys are overseeing a radical overhaul of Ulster rugby and its future ambitions — the physical manifestation of which is a €40m refit of Ravenhill, writes Rod Nawn.

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THERE is a famous picture hanging in the headquarters of the ACT Brumbies in Canberra.

Perpignan in 2003.

A school team once failed to control their snorts of laughter when a PE teacher informed them that the secret to success in football could be boiled down to one word: “Hard work.”

Remember Perpignan!

Tommy Bowe can breathe a sigh of relief now that Ulster have confirmed their new head coach for next season.

Ulster’s head coach Brian McLaughlin looks set to lose his job at the end of the season, despite pulling the side out from the depths of despair.

JAMIE HEASLIP believes Brian McLaughlin’s Ulster will travel to Limerick for next April’s Heineken Cup quarter-final against Munster with less to fear than most.

THE last thing the IRFU court is controversy.

EIGHT years ago today, Peter Canavan sat in the lounge of a Dublin hotel to catch the end of the rugby World Cup final.

IRELAND or Australia.

MUNSTER’S favourite prop stepped into the history books in the only way he knew how — quietly.

THE IRFU will wait another two years before deciding whether or not to send an Irish sevens team to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

BRIAN O’DRISCOLL may yet feature against Saracens in Wembley next weekend after a scan on the Irish captain’s injured hamstring revealed no tear.

TNS 4 Bohemians 0 (TNS win 4-1 On aggregate)

Lady Gaga is reportedly dating her “best friend”.

SCOTTISH lock Nathan Hines, currently in South Africa with the British and Irish Lions, is to quit French side Perpignan to join Heineken Cup champions Leinster.