Bath’s nightmare Heineken Champions Cup campaign continued as Stuart Hooper’s men were hammered 52-26 by Clermont Auvergne.

Rob Kearney has agreed a “nine-month extension” to his IRFU contract and will play with Leinster next season.

Eddie Jones refuses to believe that Ireland’s national set-up gives them an advantage over his England team.

A Georgia man has become the first inmate put to death since the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of executions by lethal injection.

THE Taoiseach said he would state his views on the Iraq situation when he met President Bush last Thursday.