The Champions’ Cup’s reappearance this weekend from six months of hibernation provides stark confirmation of how the elite European game below Test level has shrunk.

The World Player of the Year nominee has recovered from a hamstring injury to make his first appearance since Ireland’s Rugby World Cup quarter-final.

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IRFU CEO Kevin Potts expressed his delight at the agreement and said it promised to be a momentous occasion for Irish rugby in its 150th anniversary season.

Newly-installed Bordeaux attack coach Noel McNamara has no illusions about the scale of the battle the French side face in Galway.

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McDonald’s expects to open nearly 10,000 restaurants over the next four years, a pace of growth that would be unprecedented even for the world’s largest burger chain.

The Belgium playmaker has not featured for the treble winners since undergoing surgery on a hamstring injury in August.

The committee said in the written grounds of its decision: "All incidents assessed collectively, (together with Rubiales' position in relation to them) appear to reveal a sense of complete impunity on the part of the respondent within the football environment.

Peter O’Mahony’s decision to call time on the Munster captaincy leaves some big boots to fill. Graham Rowntree made Diarmuid Barron his first temporary stand-in

The torment from the World Cup began to ease when he made north, picked up a campervan in Antrim and picked off some of the best golf courses known to man.

The news that world no.3 ranked Jon Rahm is mulling over a reported $600 million offer from LIV doesn’t generate the shock that it might once have.

The Top 14 side have the upper hand in terms of recent results — winning the last two finals by the narrowest of margins

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As clubs at the top of the European game continue to get richer and richer, they are looking for coaches with the one thing money cannot buy

Shamrock Rovers defender Roberto 'Pico' Lopes is heading for the African Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast next month when his Cape Verde side meet Ghana, Mozambique and Egypt.

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Khutha Mchunu says the Bulls are focused on becoming the first non‑European team to win the Champions Cup, before Saracens visit on Saturday

Nienaber will be well ensconced in the Leinster coaching ticket by the time they appear at Thomond on St Stephen’s Day and his return will come just over six years after his last involvement with Munster.