Top tips for eating healthily while travelling with a young family. Dietician Ellen Roche talks to Caroline Hennessy about how to get the basics right; flying with children; and snacks to bring from home on a road trip

"I’m not sure where I thought I was going, but underwear-wise, I was either feeling highly optimistic about what I would be getting up to in hospital or in complete denial as to how in bits I would be after the birth."

We catch up with members of the Ireland women’s football squad ahead of the World Cup in Australia and ask about their role models, the sports they played as children, and why they support a new initiative to help grassroots clubs

Scott Robertson's Crusaders once again seem to be heading into the final with full sail, carried along strongly on the winds of form and confidence which picked up during the first two playoff rounds

Under the rule which came into force in 2022 it allows for players to pick their country of birth (or of their parents or grandparents birth) once they have not been selected for a period of at least 36 months by an adopted country.

Now that they have their Division 1 scalp, the confidence will be coursing through Cork’s veins.

Two goals for the Donegal woman helped the Republic of Ireland to a 3-2 warm-up win against Zambia in Tallaght and ended an eight-month drought for a player who had endured a torrid second-half to the season.

The consortium, which purchased the Premier League club in May last year, are become new shareholders “subject to a consultation process with the relevant employee representative bodies”.

Ireland fly-half Sam Prendergast is keeping his feet firmly on the ground and only thinking one game at a time.

A week out from naming her squad for the World Cup Vera Pau asked the squad to give her some selection teasers. The Irish players did it in parts and only after a false start.

“Claire has come from so far. She had a major injury this season. Came back and was first not in the core group and as a result of her last two games, we brought her in because she just convinced us that she had to be part of it and look what she’s done today,” Vera Pauw said when speaking to RTÉ in the aftermath of the game.

The Munster hurling championship was extraordinary. There is no doubt the round-robin system only enhances a storied competition.

'There are plenty of things I can improve on. The game may change in La Rochelle at times so I will have to improve on this and confirm all that next season'

The new route marks the first service in 12 years to Charles de Gaulle, coming in time for the Rugby World Cup in France later this year

In the new normal of the All-Ireland Football Championships, winning matches is not nearly as important as it used to be. This is – by any standards – an extraordinary change to the meaning of championship football.

The 82-year-old father of the former FAI CEO John Delaney was an Honorary President of the Munster Football Association

City had offered the 32-year-old a new one-year contract with the option of a further 12 months but Barca are understood to have presented a more tempting three-year, and more financially-rewarding, package.

Ireland also play France in Dublin early next month but the cut will have already come by then and that makes this fixture a last big chance for some.

The 27-year-old is proud of what she's acheieved in the last 12 months but hopes there is more to come at the World Cup.

This is the one and only game for those auditioning from the fringe of the team to make their mark and secure their place on the place.