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Connacht Rugby's Dexcom Stadium and High Performance Centre (HPC) is a hive of activity. Work continues behind the new Clan Stand as head coach Stuart Lancaster and his squad train out on the pristine Dexcom Stadium surface. Inside the new Connacht Rugby HPC, there is a tangible enthusiasm that reverberates through the building and meets you around every corner. Connacht Rugby is gearing up for its newest and most exciting chapter yet.

Mike Cubbard is perched on a sofa in the bare-walled living room of his new house, supping a mug of tea, describing his pregnant wife being threatened with a beating, their children burned alive, and his mother raped.

Niall Cuddy

There is a lot to being a League of Ireland manager. The role often entails management, coaching, recruiting, organising facilities and fundraising and sometimes more.

With Galway United remaining the only unbeaten side in the league, on first impression the international break may seem like poor timing.

Most of the 400 souls who saw Galway United take on Cobh Ramblers in 1997 might have consigned it to the dustbin of memory. But a humdrum night in the First Division sparked something in an impressionable lad from Newbridge making his first pilgrimage to a rainy Terryland.

The official announcement of Bundee Aki’s extended contract for another year is the ideal Christmas bonus for Connacht as Leinster roll into Galway for their annual festive URC meeting.

It was a win to savour for Galway United last Friday night and they will have had 16 days to do so by the time they next taste action in the league.