As Micheál Martin visits Washington, he faces diplomatic challenges, Trump’s unpredictability, and Ireland’s critical US ties

Cian Healy, Peter O’Mahony and Conor Murray will have to settle for two Grand Slams apiece instead of three and five Six Nations titles instead of six, a collection as colossal as the trio themselves. 

O’Mahony insists he still has plenty of objectives to fulfil before he does hang up the boots at the end of the season

Dupont was reportedly in tears in the French dressing room at half-time.

From the moment Fabien Galthie’s inconsistent but gifted French side lost to a clearly inferior English team at Twickenham, this game became a whole lot more difficult.

Six runners this week that could get the famously quiet billionaire talking loudly.

The Virgin Atlantic flight from Las Vegas to London had to be diverted to Canada.

“A day off is a day off, there is no training. They have private lives to do whatever they want. I’m not going to control what they do in their private life."

“I think he has a long experience and I hope he has inspired us for this weekend but we didn’t talk a lot about the handball.”

The former France and Arsenal striker visited Fabien Galthie’s squad in the build-up to Saturday’s crunch round-four showdown at the Aviva Stadium.

Now that Mona McSharry is an Olympic bronze medallist she has found a sense of freedom and does not apply the same pressure to herself.

The centre-back was forced off at half-time in last weekend’s FA Cup victory over Plymouth.

Sherratt has acknowledged the “major weapon” threat posed by Scotland’s back three.

He was still only 19 then and he recently became the youngest player to sign a central contract with the IRFU when taking up the offer of a three-year deal.

This will be Jamison Gibson-Park and Antoine Dupont's first Six Nations meeting since 2022.

In advance his Irish tour, John Lydon also recalls an eventful visit to Macroom in the 1970s when he met a frosty reception

Ireland need to prepare in advance for the physical and psychological impact of France's replacement pack.

United host Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday before next Thursday’s Europa League second leg at Old Trafford.

Wyndham Clark has a two-stroke lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

England play Albania and Latvia in World Cup qualifiers later this month.