CELTIC Rugby chief executive John Feehan last night expressed confidence that their league will have a title sponsor next season.

THE world of Irish rugby put aside thoughts of next Saturday’s Munster-Leinster match yesterday as it celebrated the life of the late Irish and Lions captain, Karl Mullen, who died last Sunday aged 82.

An Ulster Bank porter who stole €75,000 from the bank to repay debts he ran up in a "fanciful and unrealistic scheme" of exchanging Irish ‘punts’ for Sterling ‘pounds’ at a loss to himself, has been ordered to carry out 240 hours work in the community.