Sam Warburton became the youngest Lions captain in nearly 60 years and admitted he would be silly to ignore the experience of his two immediate predecessors Paul O’Connell and Brian O’Driscoll during this summer’s tour to Australia.

A five-year-old girl has lost her battle with a brain tumour just days after fulfilling her “big ambition” to sing for Simon Cowell.

IAN McGEECHAN let the cat out of the bag the other week when he expressed a preference for a forward to captain the Lions in the forthcoming tour of South Africa.

MEDIA group Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) Ltd last night conferred diplomas on 20 graduates of the Higher Diploma in Journalism Practice in the company headquarters on the South Mall in Cork.