Using VAR to check corners will be an option for competitions from this summer, while the core VAR protocol has now been widened to cover second yellow cards and cards awarded to the wrong team

Volatility and unusual structure at Stamford Bridge leave club’s young manager with a big test to rebuild like his rival has at Arsenal.

Ireland will welcome the Welsh to the Aviva Stadium for a Friday night clash this week. 

King suffered the awful injury against England in last year’s Six Nations but has made a remarkable recovery.

Acting has been a huge part of my life since childhood but it wasn’t until almost seventy years old that I landed my first lead role on screen.

Chelsea must keep their heads at Arsenal, Anthony Gordon faces his old club and a key return for Sunderland. 

King finally returned to the field on January 3

The fact that the GAA Annual Congress will vote on a motion to extend the inter-county season by two weeks into August is a reminder of how hard it is to get the Association to live up to its professed ideals

I play this game. The normal disaster scenario is an outbreak of food poisoning a week before the World Cup quarter final. Ireland need to find 10 newish or breakthrough additions to their planning spreadsheet. They're halfway there

Reports in the last week had linked the Ireland head coach with a return to the club where first made the switch from rugby league to union as a player

Gibson-Park’s speed of thought in scoring Ireland’s first try off a quick tap against England was a key moment and he terrorised the fringe defence time and again with his quick heels

Reigning champions Canada were engulfed in controversy at the Olympics after they were caught spying on a training session

Ireland have plenty to work on despite a famous win in London, while James Lowe's Six Nations looks over 

The on-loan Roma forward is set to miss the clash with Czechia

Around 10 federations want Fifa to tackle problems.

The Belfast man has been grinding it out in the G League for the Iowa Wolves of late, trying to muscle his way back into contention with the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA

Bryan O'Connor and Peter Sylvester won the 2017 Munster Schools Senior Cup with PBC, and played for the Ireland U20s at the World Championship but then their careers diverged. O'Connor is now part of the Ulster squad while Sylvester is enjoying life in Miami

Ireland are guaranteed entry into the playoffs for next year’s World Cup even if they lose all six of their qualifiers but McCabe doesn’t concur with Carla Ward’s view that finishing above Poland is the primary objective.

Goalhanger’s Tony Pastor says Serie A has ‘disappeared’

Marked absent since being withdrawn with a knee issue just 34 minutes into the province’s European Champions Cup pool stage bout against Bayonne on January 17, Ireland international Robbie Henshaw has returned to training.