Neville, a trailblazer for aspiring female officials during her ground-breaking career as a referee, will exit the international stage this weekend.

James O’Connor had completed several marathons and was always excited to participate in the event in his native Cork city

Two first-half goals through Lauren James and Alex Greenwood had the European champions on easy street at Lansdowne Road

In particular, American Wyndham Clark and Sweden’s Ludvig Åberg stand out as players with the game to overcome inexperience on the stage at Augusta

McManus is set to be well represented at Aintree with Irish Grand National hero I Am Maximus and his Willie Mullins-trained stablemate Meetingofthewaters his two shortest-priced runners.

The Gunners don't yet look like potential winners of this competition and Mikel Arteta probably won't mind shelving that problem for another season too much if they can stay on top of the Prem.

The Exeter Chiefs hooker has not played for Ireland since late 2021, shortly after she had publicly criticised former IRFU women’s director of rugby Anthony Eddy of ‘spreading slurry’ on social media.

The last two of Cliodha Moloney's 31 appearances followed soon after as the Adam Griggs era came to a close.

It's a stacked last eight in the Champions Cup - but once again Munster fell short this season. Give their luck with injuries and ill-health, one wonders is there much point in Muster head coach Graham Rowntree buying a lottery ticket any time soon?

Sorcerer Connell deserves all the plaudits for women's Euro feat and Turf War in Cork highlights downside of collaboration.

For the first time, a solar eclipse coincided with Masters week.

All five leagues involved in the four-week tournament that will be hosted in the northern hemisphere in June are in support of the concept being driven by European Professional Club Rugby.

“We don’t ever speak about being inferior."

“From a footballing perspective, this will be a great occasion."

After suffering the setback in the 2016 league semi-final win over Kilkenny, Conlon wasn’t involved in either of the final games against Waterford so Saturday’s victory over The Cats was additionally special.

It really is death by a thousand cuts for the provincial championships in their current guise.

The benefits aren’t just logistical

While the colourful language and combative demeanour were typical of Kinnear, the former Spurs and Ireland defender was so much more.

The first of the four majors The Masters, Champions Cup and Challenge Cup quater-finals and Aintree is back this week -all you need to know about sport on TV this week. 

Or maybe that should be Kirkcaldy, but either way it won't be the worst thing if Rovers' bid to join the SPL elite  falters in the next week or two. We love Stark's Park as it is thank you.