How does that sound?”Aaron Wainwright: “Incredible!”BBC: “It is another wooden spoon, but do you allow yourselves to celebrate tonight?”Aaron: “Yeah.”See? Wales win their first Six Nations game since roughly 1862 and they party like they’ve won the World Cup. Our lads win the Triple Crown and a fair chunk of our rugby-loving folk go “meh”. France throttle Ireland, Ireland throttle England, England throttle France? “It’s a pity this Six Nations has to end.”Four minutes to go and Tommy Freeman scores England’s seventh try (seventh!!

Rosamund Pike has said she thinks she damaged her career by taking 18 months off to raise her kids right after Gone Girl catapulted her to mainstream fame. Hugely popular thriller Gone Girl came out in 2014 and right after she was pregnant with her second son. Gone Girl starred Rosamund as Amy Dunne who mysteriously disappears on the day of her fifth wedding anniversary. 'I made Gone Girl, I got pregnant, I wasn't there to do all the schmoozing and ride the whole shebang. 'I was at a point where I could have got a lot of jobs but took myself out of the running for 18 months, which was sort of insane.'

Brendan Crowley, the man who runs one of Ireland’s most successful private bus companies, believes government intervention is neededThe managing director of Wexford Bus, a major transport company which carriers in excess of a million customers each year on 1,500 weekly journeys, said there has been a near 20pc increase in the price of diesel in the last week alone and that his fear is the longer the war goes on “the longer it will take prices to moderate.”

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said cybersecurity threats are a “constant”, following a cyberattack at multinational firm Stryker. Speaking in Philadelphia, Mr Martin said the Government remains “very vigilant” to the risk of cyberattacks, citing the ongoing work of the national cybersecurity centre. Asked if he was concerned about further attacks on Irish companies or state agencies in the wake of the Stryker cyberattack, Mr Martin said the Government is very conscious of the risks. “It’s a very serious issue for us on an ongoing basis,” Mr Martin said. It's why we need to continue to invest in cybersecurity.

Photograph: Arash Khamooshi/The New York TimesWith the Middle East war now in its third week, both Iran and the US seem determined to continue the fighting. “We never asked for a ceasefire, and we have never asked even for negotiation,” he told CBS News’ Face the Nation. Iran will continue to fight until US president Donald Trump “comes to the point that this is an illegal war with no victory”, he said. The relentless air strikes on Iran by the US and Israel continued on Sunday, day 16 of the war. The conflict has plunged the Middle East into chaos and disrupted oil exports from the region, sending fuel prices rising around the world.

Ireland U20 47 Scotland U20 14Ireland collected a second Six Nations Triple Crown of the weekend as the men’s under-20s swept their Scottish counterparts aside with a dominant performance in Cork on Sunday. Ireland scrum-half Christopher Barrett snuffed out any thoughts of a Scottish fightback with his try on 75 minutes and replacement prop Christian Foley rounded off a great afternoon. The first half had been largely one-way traffic as Ireland made the most of their possession and thwarted whatever Scotland threw at them to build an impressive 28-0 lead by half-time. The Irish pack set a maul with flanker Blaney peeling off down the blindside, where he fed Maguire for the finish, Wood converting. It was Ireland who had the last laugh though as scrum-half Barrett claimed his team’s sixth try of the game as Wood completed his sixth conversion.

Maxxine Dupri, the WWE wrestler who was once an NFL cheerleader with the Los Angeles Rams, has revealed the effort teams would take to stop them getting involved with players. 'They were very tough on us for the type of job it is and the amount of money you make. Phoenix Suns, NBA finals.' You can't fraternize with the players for NFL or NBA.' 'Ok, so Camille is a great example but they kept it a secret while she was a cheerleader,' Dupri said.

“We’re preparing a number of measures that could be deployed in various scenarios,” Harris said on Sunday. Harris also said the Government may bring forward plans to strengthen the powers of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to intervene in suspected cases of price gouging by petrol stations during the Middle East crisis. “People now are seeing with their own eyes what’s happening at petrol stations. Afterwards, in Trafalgar Square, crowds watched acts including former Commitments actor Robert Arkins – who played Jimmy Rabbitte in the 1991 film – and Irish singer Carrie Baxter. Elderly member of the Irish community associated with the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith also sang traditional songs from the stage.

Funeral details have been announced for a young mother of three who was found dead at her home in Ballincollig, Co Cork last Friday. The body of Kelly Cremin was discovered at her two-storey terraced home in Innishmore Park on Friday at about 5.30pm. She was pronounced dead at the scene by a local doctor. Her body was subsequently transferred to the morgue.

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John Terry has heaped praise on Max Dowman after the Arsenal wonderkid became the youngest goalscorer in Premier League history. And Terry, who has come across Dowman through his role coaching within Chelsea's academy, was left in awe by the 16-year-old's display. Terry's attentions then turned to Chelsea and the bizarre incident before their defeat by Newcastle when referee Paul Tierney found himself trapped in the middle of the Blues' pre-match huddle. Terry felt this was unacceptable from the official as he said: 'What the f*** is Paul Tierney doing in the huddle with the Chelsea players before the game. Terry said the Chelsea players should have told Tierney to 'f*** off' during the surreal scenesBlues boss Liam Rosenior later hit out at Tierney and pledged to contact the PGMOL after the utterly surreal scenes.

Peter Lynch has become the first Irishman in history to break 60 minutes for the half-marathon, the Kilkenny athlete clocking 59:52 to finish fifth at the New York City Half Marathon on Sunday morning. Nonetheless, it marks a breakthrough performance by Lynch, whose previous best was the 1:01:15 he ran in Houston, Texas last year. Lynch set an Irish marathon record of 2:09:36 in Dusseldorf last year, a mark that was broken by Fearghal Curtin at the Gyeongju International Marathon in South Korea last October, the Youghal athlete clocking 2:07:54. Lynch will likely have that mark in his sights when he lines up at the London Marathon on April 26. The 22-year-old Bandon athlete smashed her personal best with 72.48m, edging her closer to Eileen O’Keeffe’s Irish senior record of 73.21m.

Victory over Aston Villa in the battle between third and fourth at Old Trafford opened up some daylight between United and the clubs competing with them for Champions League qualification. If they do it, can Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his cohorts really deny Michael Carrick the job on a permanent basis? Carrick’s run of seven wins from nine games has thrust them firmly into the Champions League mix ever since. Their Champions League dream died in this fixture on the final day of last season, and a sixth straight defeat at Old Trafford was another damaging setback. After that game, Amorim clutched a microphone in the centre-circle at Old Trafford and promised fans that ‘after this disaster season, the good days are coming’.

Woke scientists are calling for Brits to take scampi and chips off the menu, amid fears that the seaside staple carries a 'hidden climate cost'. Scampi is a traditional chip shop treat made from the breaded and fried tails of Norway lobsters, also known as langoustines. Professor Roberts and his co–author Zoë Roseby investigated an area known as the Fladen Ground, a major Norway lobster fishing site east of Scotland. Studies estimate that for every one kilogram of Norway lobster that is caught, another kilogram of other wildlife is killed and discarded. In Scotland alone, 16,000 tonnes of Norway lobster were landed from the North Sea in 2022, leading to enormous amounts of bycatch.

Photograph: The Irish TimesA woman who said she is living in fear of her “abusive” adult daughter, who moved home after being evicted, has refused an offer of an interim barring order due to concerns that her daughter would then be homeless. Should the daughter breach the temporary order by putting the woman in fear for her safety, she can be arrested. In a separate case on Friday, a woman who claimed she is being “terrorised” by her husband was granted a protection order. The woman alleged her husband locked her bedroom door when he moved out of the family home about a year ago, denying her access since. Noting the “extremity” of what was described, Binchy granted a safety order for the maximum period of five years.