Rhys Marshall has backed Ireland to turn their Six Nations disappointment into a ‘really hungry’ World Cup campaign when the national team heads to Japan this autumn.

Eighteen years after they first met in the Munster championship, Clare’s Ollie Baker and Fergal Ryan of Cork came face to face again this week to recount the good, and not so good, days of their inter-county careers.

Barack Obama moved a step closer to clinching the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination today with a strong performance in the last major contests of the US primary season.

The stars will be out tonight for the British Soap Awards.