NEXT weekend three Irish teams play three English teams in the European Champions’ Cup. Ulster travel to London to play Harlequins at the Twickenham Stoop, Leinster go to Sandy Park to play the Exeter Chiefs and Munster will again welcome Leicester Tigers at Thomond Park.

We have to recognise the value of post offices to the country’s social and economic infrastructure, according to IPU general secretary Ned O’Hara

THE United Nations has declared a famine in two regions of southern Somalia and that tens of thousands, the majority of them children, have already died.