Ireland's David Wallace supported by Jonathan Sexton, Keith Earls and Jamie Heaslip during RBS Six Nations Championship game against Wales

Connacht's Tiernan O'Halloran dejected after losing to Biarritz during a Heineken Cup game

Connacht's Finlay Bealham, Bundee Aki, Shane Delahunt, Ian Porter, John Muldoon, Denis Buckley and Aly Muldowney during their European Challenge Cup game against Enisei-STM in Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Hayleigh (7) throws a snowball during a snowy December morning in Tullamore, Co Offaly

12-month-old Chloe watches her reflection in a mirror

Clare's Shane O'Donnell gets past Cork’s Shane O’Neill during the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final replay

Brian O’Driscoll and Fergus McFadden celebrate at the final whistle, after Ireland beat France to win the 2014 RBS Six Nations Championship

Ronan O’Gara after Munster had lost the Heineken Cup Semi-Final to ASM Clermont Auvergne. This was to be his last game before retirement

Jockey Robbie Power, on Missunited, celebrates after crossing the line to win the Galway Hurdle

Kilkenny's Richie Hogan tracked by Paddy Stapleton of Tipperary during the GAA Hurling All Ireland Senior Championship Final

Clare's Diarmuid McMahon and Fergal Lynch put pressure on Conor O'Mahony of Tippeary during a Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Semi-Final

Competitors stand for the Irish National Anthem before the Irish and American flags. For the first time ever one of the competitors was from America.