The IRFU this week announced it will make an official complaint to gardaí in the coming days in relation to social media accounts based in Ireland linked to the racist abuse of Munster rugby's Edwin Edogbo.

"You cannot underestimate the outstanding contributions of these four players to Irish Rugby over many years," said Andy Farrell.

The Englishman guided Ireland to a fourth Triple Crown in five years thanks to Saturday’s 43-21 win over Scotland

According to a report in The Irish Independent, Saracens will offer the Ireland boss a €1.2 million a season deal to become their head coach after the tournament.

Ireland hosts Wales in round four of the championship on Friday, March 6,th before Scotland visits Dublin eight days later on the final weekend.

Jack Crowley replaces Sam Prendergast, who has been left out of the matchday squad, with Ciarán Frawly as the backup option at fly-half.

Fly-half Prendergast endured a difficult outing against the Azzurri in Dublin, including missing two straightforward conversions.

The move is a further indication of his importance to the province

Aki is alleged to have engaged with the match officials on several occasions at the end of Connacht's loss to Leinster in the URC last weekend.

Elsewhere in the squad, the uncapped Edwin Edogbo and Nathan Doak have been included.

On June 27th, last, 51,000 Dua Lipa fans packed into the Aviva Stadium for the ‘Levitating’ singer as the one-night gig generated a box office of €6 million, according to US trade industry journal, Pollstar.

He has been called up ahead of this weekend’s clash with Australia at the Aviva Stadium

She will make her World Cup debut against Japan this Sunday

The views and attitudes of over 520 IRFU-registered rugby players from 17 clubs and five schools were surveyed as part of the research.

The pair will start in Ireland’s final World Cup warm up

He has been named in the Irish team to start against Portugal this Saturday

She produced a Player of the Match display in Ireland’s win over Wales last time out

He has been named to start for the Irish rugby team against Georgia

There is also a healthy Roscommon representation in the Connacht’s women’s extended squad for the Interprovincials

She came off the bench last time out against France

The team will be playing England this Saturday before heading to France for the U-18 Six Nations Festival

He has played 42 times for Leinster since making his debut in 2022.

(L-r) Cian Healy, Peter O'Mahony, and Conor Murray will call time on their careers in green when the Six Nations competition ends on March 15th.

As it is an off-field issue, there is no time specific aspect to the matter but it is expected that a hearing will follow once the province respond to the initial correspondence.

The times and dates of the opening three rounds of the Championship before Christmas have been confirmed, starting on Saturday, November 16th with Connacht Eagles v Leinster ‘A’

Performance guru Nucifora joins Scotland set-up

The media magnate and former rugby star died on Saturday aged 88.

Carmel Creaven is taking legal action over an alleged injury she suffered during a game in January 2017