This annual meeting of Team Rugby and Team Cricket has been happening since 2019 and Barrett has pedigree. Barrett could do almost anything during his short stint with the province last year. Read More Team news: Byrne starts and trio return as Cullen names Leinster side for Bayonne clash“He's been great. When he came in, we just would have asked him to be himself and he's done that” said Jamison Gibson-Park. He played full-back and he played inside-centre in that game, flitting between the two without a shred of difficulty.

At the centre of the claims is ski jumping's strict equipment measurement system, which governs the size and shape of athletes' aerodynamic suits. Those measurements are taken using 3D scanners, which calculate stride length from the lowest point of the genital area. Proposed changes include moving away from soft tissue measurements entirely and using skeletal reference points or manual checks to prevent manipulation. Australian world No.1 Laura Peel will lead a strong Aussie contingent into the 2026 Winter OlympicsSeveral athletes have dismissed the allegations as exaggerated. The squad is likely to include two-time world champion and world No.1 Laura Peel, world No.3 Danielle Scott, world No.5 Abbey Willcox, and world No.10 Airleigh Frigo.

Hilary Duff is showing a provocative side in her new single Roommates and accompanying music video that has NSFW – Not Safe For Work - written all over it. 'Physical affection goes a long way with me, I don't wanna / Quietly resent you / I just want the easy fix.' 'Roommates is a song about when life is life-ing, babe,' she wrote in the caption of her post. The group of friends created by Duff will often message each other, go on holiday, have play dates and attend baby classes together. A smaller headline could also be seen and read: 'A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father's Eye.'

Cloud Dancer, it airily informed us, is a “billowy, balanced white”, and a “key structural colour” that lets other colours stand out. Plain cream window treatments give continuity to neutral décor, with plant life and textiles to add winter cosiness. Colour lovers might find its inclusion gives better definition to strong colours in a space where there’s a run of busily patterned wallpaper or a jewel-toned sofa. The Arlington marmalade sofa from Caseys; €2,185 is a richly-hued version ready for off-white Cloud Dancer-style walls and rugs. Kukoon’s Everyday light beige shaggy rug is a reinvention of a 70s classic look; €155, adding texture and deep-pile warmth.

I’m now on nine points, all of which were for breaching the 20mph limit, which means I now must drive like a man carrying a tray of boiling soup. ‘But it’s all about road safety’ comes the inevitable response from those in favour of speed restrictions. It’s drunk drivers, angry drivers, distracted drivers, street racers – and 20mph zones solve none of that. In fact, the obsession with 20mph has had a perverse effect: it has made drivers pay less attention to the road. It’s hard to escape the feeling that this isn’t about safety – it’s about slowing you down enough to pay up.

A familiar dance and a perennial partner, but Munster have work to do to ensure Saturday’s Champions Cup pool finale against old foes Castres does not turn into a last waltz of the campaign. The 27-25 defeat at Stade Felix Mayol was avoidable, with a yellow card just before half-time for captain Tadhg Beirne preceding 14 points for the home side in his absence. “That’s probably the one area that let us down, or inhibited our ability to win that game, our discipline,” McMillan said on Friday. So those are the things we try and work on as skills, just like any other part of the game. You know, it’s going to be a real battle.”McMillan stretched that analogy further when noting the strength of the Castres team being sent to Thomond Park, predicting a “war”.

Photograph: Juliette Pavy“We feel united against this right now, but it has complicated things too,” he says, a nod to the island’s burgeoning hopes of full independence from Denmark. Photograph: Juliette PavyPeople walk past housing in the city of Nuuk, Greenland. But locals in Greenland say this modern gold rush – some call it the ‘cold rush’ – is more talk than action. Office buildings in Nuuk, Greenland. Photograph: Juliette PavyApartment blocks outside the city of Nuuk, Greenland.

Videos of people assembling “analogue bags” – essentially holdalls of entertainment to keep boredom at bay – have gone viral on Instagram and TikTok. There is a growing sentiment now that the way to thrive in our high-tech world is by living a low-tech life. Most things are a lot less urgent than they seem when the option to respond or act immediately isn’t there. In the water, whether you’re floating, paddling or doing laps, there is total freedom from technology and from the outside world. Stars, planets and the mysteries of the cosmos can make the screens we spend so much time staring into seem dull.

The political order under which they lived was failing to provide them with basic necessities. It is seeming less and less obvious, less and less to be taken for granted, that this economic order is capable of providing people with those basic necessities, or even that it is especially intended to do so. Free market capitalism is very effective at producing commodities that can be bought and sold quickly, cheaply, and at scale. I want them to be able to stay in this country, and preferably not at the cost of living indefinitely in their childhood home. And I also want them to live in a country that is not perpetually defined and deformed by this crisis of fully functioning free market capitalism.

Guinness stout has had a revival in recent years, becoming trendy with Gen Z and women. Diageo agreed just before Christmas to sell its 65 per cent stake in East African Breweries, its last direct beer operation, for $2.3 billion (€2 billion) to Japan’s Asahi Group. While Diageo has denied any interest in selling its 34 per cent stake in Moët Hennessy, the drinks division of luxury group LVMH, its looks increasingly like an odd holding. “Over three years, this is a cumulative saving of circa $3.5 billion,” the investment bank said in a report this week. Tapping the team at Guinness – one of the best recent examples of brand-building in the industry – would be a good start.

Photograph: Bryan O'BrienIn theory, I use social media solely to promote my work. 2025 was a tough year in my life, and I used my phone as respite from the hard things happening around me. But when life is hard, a portable experience-blocker that can transport you elsewhere can be difficult to resist. I’m going to read, write, swim and learn to play more than one chord on the guitar, among other things. At the end of the month, I’ll assess what value has been lost by what I’ve cut out, what I want to add back in and how I’m going to do it.

You know there is something seriously wrong when national media attention turns towards the people rather than the results. Finally it seems that the reality of life at West Ham United is sinking in to those in the ‘wider world’. “To put it simply,( says the Mail) they have had enough of David Sullivan and his lieutenant Karren Brady. They have had enough of duff managerial appointments and duff signings and they would appear to have a point. Lincoln city, rather than Liverpool, could be visiting the 60,000 capacity London stadium next season.

A nurse at the centre of a trans row tribunal has praised the courage of colleagues south of the Border after they won a landmark case against health chiefs. As part of a judgement handed down on Friday, Employment Judge Seamus Sweeney ruled that County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation trust’s conduct amounted to harassment and indirect sex discrimination. ‘It beggars belief that John Swinney and the SNP continue to betray women by refusing to instruct Scotland’s public bodies to uphold the Supreme Court ruling. Commenting on their tribunal victory on X, she said: ‘Women have the right not to undress in front of men at work. ‘Every key area of government which is or may be affected by the Supreme Court judgment is carrying out assessments across legislation, guidance and policies – and in some areas changes have already been made.

Pep Guardiola has again criticised the standard of officiating by claiming that Erling Haaland is not provided enough protection by referees. The 25-year-old has recently endured physical battles with Jan Paul van Hecke and Sven Botman in games against Brighton and Newcastle United, encounters from which his manager believed that Manchester City were due more free kicks. ‘Erling is the only striker in the world that makes more fouls than defenders do on him,’ Guardiola said. ‘He is only the striker in my life that he makes more fouls to defenders than defenders to him. ‘God bless that we have Erling in our team right now and all of the season,’ the City boss added.

From the apartment balconies, the grounds of Áras an Uachtaráin are visible through the oak trees. The back garden of the block is the 1,750 acres of the Phoenix Park. So why are these apartments lying empty?