The province started brightly before the French side grew into the game to take a deserved opening round Champions Cup win.

Having seen Bohemians and Shelbourne drop points on Friday night, Tim Clancy’s side opened up a four-point gap on the Bit O’Red.

The pre-match favourites did just about enough.

The Rams were 2-0 down with four minutes remaining before Colin Kazim-Richards and Curtis Davies scored to seal a share of the spoils.

It wasn’t pretty at times but the relocation of Aoife Donohue to the inside line was just about the deciding factor.

Ian Baraclough owed a huge debt to his goalkeeper Bailey Peacock-Farrell in Bucharest.

Four wins out of four for the defending champions.

Ireland Women’s head coach Adam Griggs was a relieved man after yesterday’s 18-14 win over Scotland.

Shannon scrum-half Craig Casey grabbed two tries to keep Ireland on course for a Grand Slam.

CJ Stander’s second half try and an enormous defensive shift sees Munster leave with two points.

Villarreal twice led through Carlos Bacca and Gerard Moreno but Scott Arfield and Kyle Lafferty scored equalisers.

Peru passed up a couple of gilt-edged opportunities.

Son Heung-min scored the only goal of the game for a below-par Tottenham.

Harry Kenny’s side continued their impressive season with another victory this evening.

The Tipperary Tornado battled hard to claim victory in London tonight.

The former Tipperary star now coaches UCD, who beat DJ Carey’s IT Carlow tonight.

The hosts had Anto Murphy sent off in controversial circumstances

And it doesn’t sound like it’s good news for the bank. A High Court judge has given Leeds Building Society until 28 July to prove they are ‘genuinely interested’ in a resolution.