Ireland are sweating on the fitness of captain Brian O’Driscoll after the Leinster centre suffered a hamstring injury in yesterday’s 19-9 victory over Wales.

Out-of-tune buskers have been banned from the world-famous Cliffs of Moher after tourists complained about the quality of music they played.

Italy 3 France 39

Ireland head coach Eddie O’Sullivan admitted he felt “sick” by the heartbreaking manner of today's 20-17 RBS Six Nations defeat by France.

Down 0-14 Kildare 1-11

Southend continued their remarkable Coca-Cola Championship revival as QPR crashed to an eighth straight away defeat at Roots Hall.

Manchester United 1 Lille 0 (Man Utd win 2-0 on aggregate)

Michael Ballack earned Chelsea a place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a late winner at Stamford Bridge.

Paul McCartney’s estranged wife was back at the High Court in England today.

Sunderland boosted their hopes of gaining automatic promotion to the Barclays Premiership with a crucial win at The Hawthorns as they moved level on points with Tony Mowbray's side.

Bargain-buy Caleb Folan condemned struggling Manchester City to a fourth consecutive Premiership defeat and put Wigan tantalisingly close to survival.

Lille are not ruling out launching an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after seeing their attempts to invalidate Manchester United’s winning goal in last week’s Champions League tie rejected by UEFA.

UEFA have rejected Lille’s attempts to invalidate Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs’ winning goal in their Champions League match.

Munster will be content with the announcement that Englishman Chris White will take charge of their Heineken Cup quarter-final away to Llanelli Scarlets at the end of March.

First Division St Johnstone reached their second semi-final of the season with a well-deserved Tennent’s Scottish Cup victory at Fir Park.

Benni McCarthy heaped more knockout woe upon Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal after clambering off the bench to shoot Blackburn into the FA Cup quarter-finals with a dramatic late winner at Ewood Park.

UEFA disciplinary chiefs have thrown out a complaint by Lille about the validity of Manchester United’s winning goal and have charged the French club’s players with improper conduct.

Ronan O’Gara insists Ireland must perform with greater “intensity” if he is to mastermind England’s downfall at Croke Park.

Lille 0 Manchester United 1

Manchester United will find out on Friday if their controversial Champions League last-16 first-leg victory over Lille is to stand.