BY WILL KELLEHER AT THE PRINCIPALITY STADIUM: Wales will be ready for a rude awakening in Dublin on Saturday - aware that Ireland will not walk on to their punches as Italy did.

ALEX BYWATER AT THE AVIVA STADIUM: Ireland produced a statement 24-14 win over Wales in Dublin to make it back-to-back wins in the Six Nations. Sportsmail rated both sets of players.

WILL KELLEHER AT AVIVA STADIUM: The storm stayed away but Ireland built a big green wall to barricade themselves against Welsh tides in Dublin, beating the Grand Slam champions.

Watkins, who won 18 caps for Wales between 2003 and 2006, retired in 2011 and was diagnosed with a rare form of pelvic cancer in 2013. He leaves his wife Stacey and sons Siôr and Tal.

LAWRENCE BOOTH AT THE OVAL: Buttler, whose previous eight innings in this series had produced a best of 41, deposited Josh Hazlewood for three sixes to reach stumps on 64 not out.

England have set a minimum target of 425 points in their quest to reach the inaugural World Test Championship final at Lord's in 2021. Joe Root's team claimed 56 from the 2-2 draw in the Ashes.

The Riley Lynx is a pristine example of fourwheeled elegance from the early days of motoring. But only five years ago, this 1934 Riley Lynx sports car was a burnt-out shell in Yorkshire.

The popular BBC Radio Ulster host uploaded the images (pictured) on Twitter alongside a love heart and a praying emoji, a day before it emerged he had passed away aged 47.

After the Lord Mayor’s show of Euro 2016, Wales provided an emphatic performance to indicate more good times on the big stage lie ahead after defeating Moldova 4-0 in Cardiff.

AMITAI WINEHOUSE AT THE KIYAN PRINCE FOUNDATION STADIUM: Nottingham Forest went up to fourth in the table after an eventual commanding win over ten-man QPR.

Kyle Tomlin scored an outrageous last-minute 40-yard screamer for Mansfield Town's Under 18 side in the FA Youth Cup against Queens Park Rnagers, which the Stags went on to win.

HECTOR NUNNS AT LOFTUS ROAD: Jordan Hugill took full advantage of a badly weakened Swansea team to grab his first FA Cup goals for six years.

Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave has been working hard on her fitness since giving birth in February.

Elijah Tufono, has a serious heart condition and was still suffering from chest pain a day after the violent encounter on Monday in California his mother said on Facebook Tuesday.

The English actress, 46, and Canadian musician, 22, held glove-covered hands while leaving the trendy Erewhon grocery store in Pacific Palisades, California.

Miles Armstead, 44, had been doing yard work outside of his home on the 7500 block of Ney Avenue in Oakland on Friday, when his former neighbor, Jamal Thomas, 43, is allegedly to have shot him.

Sportsmail can reveal that the Black Cats are willing to let the midfielder leave the club rather than risk losing him on a free transfer next summer. They also need to reduce the wage bill.

JOE BERNSTEIN AT THE KASSAM STADIUM: An all-League One tie proved as close as the league positions suggested with only three points separating the clubs.

Sir Bradley Wiggins, from London, has revealed he won't be pushing his 'very talented' son into becoming a professional cyclist - claiming that doing so to bask in the reflected glory would be 'cruel'.

The Court of Appeal ruled that the £14billion Heathrow expansion project was illegal because the Government did not take its duty to curb climate change into account.

Stanford University, California experts believe that the 'Late Ordovician' mass extinction 450 million years ago was due to widespread 'anoxia', or oxygen depletion, over a three million year period.

Computer simulations reveal climate change could awaken an ancient Indian Ocean El Niño by 2100, but the phenomenon could occur as early as 2050 if the current warming trends continue.

Connor Parrish, 19, pictured, received a four-year detention order after he admitted supplying ecstasy to 14-year-old Bethany Devlin-McCrone who later died.

Liverpool youngster Harvey Elliott has been banned from all domestic club football for 14 days after posting an offensive Snapchat video imitating Tottenham striker and England star Harry Kane.

Rheta Leanne Melvin, 36, is accused of having sex with the 14-year-old boy in the back of her car in Riddle, Oregon. She admitted to sending him sexually explicit photos and videos on Snapchat.

Joyce Churchwell, 40, surrendered to police on Tuesday after a warrant was issued for her arrest on a charge of first-degree rape in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

Friends of a missing 14-year-old girl used Snapchat to help cops track her down to a motel room in California and rescue her from abuse by three men.

An couple from Hobart, Indiana allegedly drove a pair of twin teenage boys off a road they were bicycling along with flags in support of President Donald Trump, according to local police.

The social media giant announced that it will test a feature that allows users to post tweets that disappear after just 24 hours, similar to the ephemeral story posts on Instagram and Snapchat.

Tristan Vanderwatt worked as a support staffer at Gippsland Grammar in VIctoria in 2019. The then 20-year-old had sex with a 14-year-old student and groomed another on Snapchat.

MARTIN KEOWN: I watched every minute of it, from the build-up, to the players walking out in front of 100,000 at Wembley, to Keegan scoring twice for Liverpool in a very one-sided 3-0 win.

The fresh design of the 'renaissance' kit, created by Puma, is inspired by a jersey the Azzurri once wore all the way back in 1954, when the side of old managed to beat Argentina 2-0.

EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION:David Cotterill is facing legal action from at least seven former team-mates after being accused of cheating them out of a combined total of almost £400,000.

The hosts of the 2030 World Cup will only have six years to prepare for the tournament. The FIFA Council decided at a meeting Thursday that the bidding process will be launched in 2022.

Sanchez is currently on loan at Inter Milan from Manchester United but has struggled to make much of an impact in Italy amid recurring injury issues. He has played just 15 matches this season.

MATT HUGHES - AHEAD OF THE GAME: Sky Sports' owners Comcast have begun negotiations over extending NBC's contract to show Premier League matches in the United States.

During the sporting lockdown, replays, throwbacks and charity auctions have taken on unprecedented importance as fans look to fill the void left by live action. 

Mali opened their Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a resounding 4-1 triumph over Mauritania at the Suez Stadium.

DR Congo put themselves in the hunt for a place in the knockout stages of the Africa Cup of Nations with a 4-0 thumping of Zimbabwe.

Yannick Bolasie missed from the spot as Africa Cup of Nations debutants Madagascar beat DR Congo in a dramatic penalty shootout to reach the quarter-finals.

Ferjani Sassi struck the winning spot-kick as Tunisia beat Ghana 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out to secure their place in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals.

Wilfried Bony and Serey Die missed penalties in the shootout as Algeria sealed a 4-3 victory over the Ivory Coast following an entertaining 1-1 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final draw on Thursday.

Sharing a fan theory from a Facebook group called Glasto Chat on Tuesday, The Mirror claimed an announcement confirming the news is expected to take place on Wednesday.

Adelaide has the cheapest fuel in the country on average with prices falling to 89.5 cents per litre on April 1 for unleaded. Brisbane has the second cheapest price of 98.3 cents per litre.

Harvard-educated Sonam Saxena, 43, reported his wife Smriti missing on Tuesday claiming the 41-year-old mother-of-two had vanished during a late night stroll on a secluded beach.

Apps violated rules on ad policies, by showing ads that were 'displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of device functions'

The Pixel 4A will debut at $399 which is on par with the tech giant's previous budget offering, the Pixel 3A according to leaked renders of billboard ads for the Google-made device posted by Evan Blass.

Andrew Guy, 41, from Hampshire, was struck off by the Architects Registration Board after he targeted eight firms with negative reviews, including two run by women he had dated.

Dorsey tweeted that he would donate a billion dollars in the form of shares in Square to help coronavirus efforts but Securities Exchange Filings show he has donated less than that.

Underscoring the need for speed, the Oxford scientist said a fast turnaround could 'make the difference between an epidemic starting to resurge towards the second wave or not'.