A storm is coming. Question is whether it will be Ireland, Wales or just Storm Ciara that rattle through the Aviva Stadium this afternoon.

After 12 years and 151 tests in charge of Wales, Warren Gatland’s Super Rugby coaching career with the Chiefs began with a remarkable comeback victory over the Blues in Auckland.

Ronan O'Gara has tried to put himself in the Ireland boss’s shoes this week and he knows all too well that there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to team selection.

Earlier in the week, new head coach Andy Farrell made the point that he wanted his Irish team to stand for something.

There has been no shortage of praise for Leinster’s latest batch of youth, but to watch Max Deegan give another Man-of-the-Match performance yesterday in Ballsbridge could make you think that they perhaps haven’t been lauded enough.

The RDS Exhibition Hall was bursting at the seams as the annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition got under way last week.

GLOBAL social network giant Linkedin has just inked a major Dublin office deal which could allow it add up to 3,000 further Irish jobs, on top of the 2,000 it is already due to employ in the capital by mid-2020.

Max Deegan was deemed to be the best player in the world at the U20 grade after his efforts at the World Junior Championships in 2016.

‘Tis the season for Christmas jumpers, blue Santa hats, and Leinster at the Aviva.

Dubliners have been given more time to have their say on the latest plan for the redesign of the city's bus network.

The Taoiseach has yet to speak with the Garda Commissioner about staffing levels in Cork but has promised that numbers will increase across the country.

The decisions by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis to shed 320 of the 550 jobs at its Cork campus over the next three years and by Koch Industries to close its Molex manufacturing facility in Shannon, with the loss of 500 jobs, may be the tip of the manufacturing industry closures’ iceberg in Ireland.

The new Bus Connects plan for Dublin is promising a 22% increase in the level of service for commuters.

The Dutch Embassy, rather than plead diplomatic immunity on behalf of one of its official drivers involved in a road accident in Dublin, has settled €60,000 claims on behalf of two cousins injured in the collision.

Food writer Georgina Campbell has warned that hospitality standards are slipping at some of Ireland’s highest-rated and most expensive hotels and restaurants.

An artificial intelligence (AI) expert has been cleared of breaking animal welfare laws after a judge accepted he had climate control switched on when he left his poodle in his car during a heatwave.

The Ketchup Pizza?

The prospect of life on Mars made the front page of the Cork Examiner 50 years ago.

Limerick’s Paul O’Shea has led an Irish whitewash of the three international classes on the opening day of the 2019 Stena Line Dublin Horse Show.

Reckoned to be the first resale of a four-bed detached within the upmarket, crisp, contemporary-designed Elden scheme on Cork’s Maryborough Hill, No 3 arrives with a €630,000 price tag.

Dublin is a city of trees. They shape the city, give light and shade, colour some of the busiest thoroughfares and add incredible atmosphere and charm to the city.

The Supreme Court has overturned the Information Commissioner's decision requiring the Minister for Health to give a man a record of his meeting with a retired judge who reviewed allegations of sexual abuse against retired surgeon Michael Shine.

Profits at the commercial firm operated by former Irish rugby captain, Jamie Heaslip last year more than doubled to €124,324.

Efforts will be made to protect wildlife under the new Bus Connects plans in Dublin.

Concerned locals held a meeting last night over two of the proposed new corridors from Ballsbridge to the city centre and from Blackrock to Merrion.

A former homeless man who set fires in wheelie bins to heat his sleeping bag has been sentenced to three years in prison for arson at two Dublin locations.

The sometime scourge of plans by Trump Doonbeg and other developers has lost out on his own plans to extend the number of Airbnb style studio lettings at his protected Georgian Dublin property.

Convicted fraudster Peter Conlon, who founded the collapsed Pembroke Dynamic fundraising platform business, is practising "transformative meditation", Kriya yoga, and doing 25,000 steps a day, the High Court has heard.

It’s 10 years now since Felipe Contepomi’s knee crumpled and Jonathan Sexton stepped into the breach for a European knockout fixture in Dublin against an interprovincial rival.

Damien Duff and Ronnie Whelan may have found fault with the tennis balls served up in protest against John Delaney at the Aviva Stadium, but Mick McCarthy could see the funny side after a performance and result that sets Ireland up nicely in Group D.

St Michael’s College were crowned Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup champions for the third time in their history with an emphatic victory over Gonzaga College at the RDS Arena.

There was no doubting the satisfaction Joe Schmidt took from the heights Ireland scaled against France last Sunday, and yet the Kiwi coach wasn’t slow in pointing out how the collective performance fell off a cliff towards the end.

Esther N McCarthy takes her pick from showers, scents and sea sponges this week.

The game wasn’t up for Ireland at half-time on Saturday evening but it sure didn’t look encouraging.

So, no Jonathan Sexton to set the tone and dictate the tune.

Sorting out Cork people for years...

Facebook has said it is expanding its Irish investment after it acquired a long-term lease on the Bank Centre in Ballsbridge.