MIKE ROSS has been around long enough to know tonight’s opening Heineken Cup clash at the RDS (8pm) between Leinster and London Irish won’t be easy. But he does have the jump on some of his colleagues.

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s father-in-law has been signed up for a part in TV show The Bill, it was announced today.