Hamilton’s rear skid block was below the regulation thickness while Charles Leclerc’s car was found to be underweight in a race won by Oscar Piastri.

The FAI has offered its ‘full and unequivocal support’ to the player who was allegedly subjected to racism and to his team-mates.

Galway and Dublin are in pole position at the top of the table, they will play Kerry and Tyrone respectively on Sunday afternoon.

Both cars were thrown out of the Chinese Grand Prix standings for breaches of the technical regulations.

Luke Humphries saw off Boris Krcmar 6-4 after the Croatian battled back from 3-0 down to draw level.

Piastri and Lando Norris completed a McLaren one-two, with George Russell third and Hamilton back in sixth.

Ireland take a 2-1 lead into the decisive second leg against Bulgaria in Dublin

Connacht, who next take on sixth-placed Munster, finish the weekend in 12th spot and level on 31 points with 11th-placed Edinburgh, both just two points outside the play-off placesp

The Dragons travel to play North Macedonia on Tuesday.

The Rebels dominated Galway by 4-22 to 0-22 to reach the decider this evening

Irish fighters Shauna Bannon and Caolan Loughran secured big wins as the UFC returned to London

Ulster came from behind late on as they beat United Rugby Championship basement boys Dragons 34-30 at Rodney Parade

United Rugby Championship leaders Leinster saw their winning streak ended as they were beaten 21-20 away at South African side Bulls

Ireland set up a grandstand finish as Wafer punished France in the corner for her second try of the match.

Norris will start third.

Shauna Bannon and Caolan Loughran will aim to start their 2025 with victories in their respective bouts, as they feature on the prelims on Saturday night. 

Foreman fought both Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali before becoming world champion again at the age of 45

Ireland are taking on France, who beat them by 21 points last year.

It comes two weeks after Healy won gold at the European Indoor Championships in the Netherlands.

Foreman became the oldest world heavyweight champion at the age of 45.