The New Zealand Rugby Union president will travel to Ireland at the weekend to view a new €1,500,000 pitch and clubhouse development a small rugby club has undertaken in partnership with a local GAA team.

UP to €90,000 of funds from what are now cash-strapped local authorities was used to send union officials on trips around the world to train them for talks on the social partnership process.

THE entire 70-man crew of a diesel-powered Chinese submarine was killed when the vessel had an “accident” while on an exercise in the Yellow Sea, the official Xinhua News Agency revealed yesterday.