Also, ex Munster head coach Graham Rowntree has landed his first job since leaving the province, and has been appointed to a leading club in Japan ahead of favourite Warren Gatland

Ogbene is back in the 23 man squad for the first time since October 2024 following his recovery from an Achilles tendon rupture.

A co-owned six-year-old Holstein Friesian was crowned 2025 Diageo Baileys Irish Champion Dairy Cow

Ireland got their World Cup campaign up and running with a victory on Sunday. 

Topping a World Cup qualification group also featuring Portugal, Hungary, and Armenia would book a direct ticket to the 48-team extravaganza in the USA, Mexico and Canada.

The average winning margin so far stands at 47.6 points. It’s a small sample size, but still an awful look for an event expanded from 12 teams to 16 for the first time.

President Donald Trump posted to his social media platform Sunday to endorse Bradley for the 12-man team.

Now in its twelfth year, the Irish AeroPress Championship, organised this year by Badger & Dodo, will draw some of the country’s most skilled coffee makers to Cork

Skipper Martin Odegaard is also doubtful for Sunday’s trip to Anfield.

It speaks to the popularity of Tommy Fleetwood among the fans who chanted “Tommy! Tommy!” and his peers, as well as the weight the 34-year-old Englishman was finally through carrying.

Lowry was overtaken by Rasmus Højgaard in the Team Europe Ryder Cup rankings with the Dane claiming the final automatic spot. It means the Offaly man will have to rely on being selected by European captain Luke Donald. 

Missing the 2022 tournament has long been an open sore for the women’s game in Ireland, and no more so than for the dozen or so players in this squad who featured in those disastrous losses to Spain and Scotland in the qualifiers held in Parma four years ago.

Ruby Tui, a World Cup winner with New Zealand in 2022, broached the topic of Ireland taking their foot off the gas against the Black Ferns. 

Follow up this six-try effort against Japan with another win over Spain at the same venue next week and they are into that last eight with a game to spare

There have already been too many strolls in the pool stages and, while Ireland won well, they were pushed at times by a Japanese side that never wilted after falling behind 14-0 so early.

As revealed by the Irish Examiner in April, Victor Ozhianvuna and his family – his father is Nigerian, mother Russian – were guests of Arsenal in London

Ambition has become a crime in the absurd world of professional football.

Ireland are just 80 minutes away from a guaranteed quarter-final place. 

Irish striker plays 75 minutes in Roma's Serie A opening night win over Bologna

The Irish scored six tries against the Japanese in Northampton on Sunday afternoon.