Wow, the food is fantastically good in Australia. I’ve just come back from a two-week trip to promote my new book Grow Cook Nourish. A whistle-stop tour where I visited Sydney, Melbourne, Byron Bay and Tasmania.

The Conrad Hotel, Dublin.

One of the advantages of being a newcomer to this Ireland side is a lack of baggage attached to that 2015 defeat to Argentina.

Joe Schmidt has challenged his Test rookies to survive on their wits, not rely on the experience of those around them, after naming an inexperienced backline to face old foes Argentina tomorrow.

Dave Passmore has received clearance to run an ongoing women’s U21 programme from Hockey Ireland.

Like Ronan O’Gara, Welsh rugby coach Alistair Rogers understood the maxim about travel broadening the mind, says Brendan O’Brien. 

Professional rugby player Donncha O’Callaghan has played for Munster, Ireland and the Lions and has recently renewed his contract with Worcester Warriors. He will bow out of the pro-game

EVERY morning, Paul Howard and his dog set off from Dublin at 7am to drive to Avoca, where he spends the day writing.

A leading Fianna Fáil TD has has objected to comments made by his party colleague that those behind Ireland’s failed Rugby World Cup bid “couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery”.

Two years? It feels like a lifetime.

Arsene Wenger believes Danny Welbeck will go to the World Cup with England if the Arsenal striker can remain fit in the coming months.

We cannot “screw” up Ireland for our children and grandchildren, says the former secretary general of the Department of Finance.

Grotesque abuse hurled at Cyrus Christie online came to the fore this week, the latest example of how football, and sport in general, continues to battle the scourge of racism.

The saying down Munster way used to claim that Superman wore Paul O’Connell pyjamas.

Conor Murray is a maker of moments.

Key Munster players Keith Earls and James Cronin are unlikely to play any rugby for the remainder of 2017.