Shane Geraghty will rejoin London Irish this summer after signing a two-year deal with the club he left in 2009.

England and Sale prop Andrew Sheridan will join Toulon this summer.

CARDIFF BLUES forwards coach Justin Burnell has warned his side they will have to “go up another gear” when wounded London Irish visit the Cardiff City Stadium for tonight’s Heineken Cup Pool Two clash.

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LOSING this afternoon’s final Heineken Cup game of the season at home to London Irish is not an option.

DONNCHA O’Callaghan is under no illusions about the size of the task facing Munster and the province’s supporters at Thomond Park.

Frankie Sheahan attempts to answer some of them.

AFTER only a few minutes of Saturday’s Heineken Cup contest at the Madejski Stadium, it became abundantly clear just why we love this tournament so much.

Ireland’s Keith Earls will start for Munster against London Irish in the Heineken Cup at Wembley on Saturday evening (5.45pm).

BACK in November 1967 The Beatles released yet another hit album, the Magical Mystery Tour, which summed up precisely where they were at, at that point in time.

A “DEVIOUS” 48-year-old man who tricked two teenage girls on the internet into believing he was 17 and then raped them was yesterday jailed indefinitely.

IT’S mid-October and Leinster’s opening Heineken Cup defeat by London Irish at the RDS has been compounded five days later by a lengthy suspension for Shane Jennings for alleged contact with the eye area.

London Irish have recalled the twin threat of wings Topsy Ojo and Sailosi Tagicakibau Saturday's Heineken Cup final pool six match with Leinster at Twickenham.

JULIEN DUPUY, the Stade Francais scrum-half, will miss France’s entire Six Nations campaign after his appeal against a 24-week suspension for gouging was reduced by just seven days to 23 weeks.

JONATHAN SEXTON and Shane Jennings are hoping for a dramatic improvement in weather conditions to allow tomorrow night’s Magners League clash against Glasgow Warriors at the RDS (8pm) to go ahead.

Leinster could be in line to recall out-half Jonathan Sexton and flanker Shane Jennings to their squad ahead of the Magner’s League tie with leader Glasgow Warriors on Friday night.

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Martin Johnson will name one of the most inexperienced England teams in memory to face Australia at Twickenham on Saturday – and that is despite the return of Jonny Wilkinson.

LEINSTER coach Michael Cheika has launched a staunch defence of Irish flanker Shane Jennings whose disputed 12-week ban was upheld by an appeal committee sitting in Dublin yesterday.

Leinster coach Michael Cheika has hit back with a strong backing of Shane Jennings, despite the decision, on appeal, of the Independent Judicial Committee to uphold a 12-week ban for making contact with the eye/eye area of London Irish lock Nick Kennedy.

Shane Jennings today lost his appeal against a 12-week suspension for ’making contact with the eye area’ of Nick Kennedy in Leinster’s 12-9 Heineken Cup defeat by London Irish on October 9.

BRIAN O’DRISCOLL and Luke Fitzgerald have both voiced their support of Leinster colleague Shane Jennings ahead of today’s appeal in Dublin against a 12-week ban imposed for eye-gouging in a recent Heineken Cup game against London Irish.

LEINSTER and Ireland flanker Shane Jennings was hit with a 12-week ban after being found guilty of an eye-contact offence during last Friday’s Heineken Cup clash against London Irish.

Leinster Rugby will appeal the decision to ban Shane Jennings for 12 weeks for making contact with the eye of London Irish forward Nick Kennedy.

Leinster flanker Shane Jennings has been suspended for 12 weeks.

A MEETING of an IRFU disciplinary panel in Dublin last night sat for about three hours before reducing the six-week ban imposed last week on Munster prop John Hayes by seven days.

LEINSTER back row Shane Jennings has been cited for “contact with the eye/eye area” of opponent Nick Kennedy in his side’s defeat last Friday at the hands of London Irish in the RDS – but the Premiership side’s captain, Bob Casey, has weakened the case against Jennings, admitting yesterday that Kennedy “overreacted” to the incident.

IT was what Leinster feared all week long, being the hunted rather than the hunter. So a stirring triumph over old rivals Munster in the dress rehearsal for this opening game in their defence of the Heineken Cup meant absolutely nothing; the champions fell victim to a sucker punch in the dying stages of a vigorously contested but disappointing match at the RDS last night.

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London Irish coach Toby Booth has rotated his entire front row for three of the five changes he has made for tomorrow’s opening Heineken Cup fixture with Leinster in Dublin.

Captain Bob Casey will travel, but not play, with the London Irish squad to play Leinster at Donnybrook on Friday.

JEAN DE VILLIERS claims he is looking forward to making himself part of the Munster ‘family’, citing the province’s tradition as a powerful motivating factor in his decision to join.

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MARTIN JOHNSON spent most of his playing career keeping Simon Shaw out of the England team and most of his latest incarnation as red rose manager doing the same.

Simon Shaw will make his first England start under Martin Johnson after being named as one of three changes in the team to play France in Sunday’s RBS 6 Nations clash at Twickenham.

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Danny Cipriani insisted his rugby career is not being hampered by a “celebrity lifestyle”, after he was dropped by England for this weekend’s final autumn Test against New Zealand.

Danny Cipriani has been dropped from the England team to play New Zealand on Saturday.

Martin Johnson has reinforced the England pack by making two changes for the Cook Cup international against Australia.

Martin Johnson insists he does not care about his England team playing “sexy rugby”.

Former captain Martin Corry has called on England’s players to make Twickenham a fortress as he looks forward to an exciting new era for the national side under the stewardship of Martin Johnson.

Martin Johnson has included four debutants — Delon Armitage, Ugo Monye, Riki Flutey and Nick Kennedy — in the England team to start against the Pacific Islanders on Saturday.

Martin Johnson has included four debutants – Delon Armitage, Ugo Monye, Riki Flutey and Nick Kennedy – in the England team to start against the Pacific Islanders on Saturday.