While most Irish eyes were fixed on the Aviva Stadium on Saturday as Declan Kidney’s side hammered Argentina, one Cork man’s focus was solely on Paris and Samoa’s bid to topple France.

INDONESIA said last night it fears thousands have died in a major earthquake as exhausted rescue workers clawed through mountains of rubble with their bare hands to find survivors.

Scores of people were dead and missing today after a powerful earthquake in the South Pacific hurled a massive tsunami at the shores of Samoa and American Samoa.