Romain Ntamack and Antoine Dupont shine as hosts temporarily reduced to 13-men

Last year’s beaten Champions Cup finalists Leinster will face Lyon and Northampton

Winger’s two tries the difference against Clermont Auvergne to claim 20th league title

The Irish side worked France’s defensive errors and laziness to get it over the line

Felix Lambey’s performance is a silver lining on a bleak day for French rugby in Dublin

Four tries for Joe Schmidt’s side secured a bonus point ahead of final trip to Cardiff

Impressive performance from Ireland’s 21-year-old fullback brings crowd to its feet

Joe Schmidt knows his side have to win this one, and now he’s got the team that can do it

Ireland aiming for three wins in a row as the travelling French look to spring an upset

Rugby statistics: Once a staple of Paris trips, touchdowns are now thin on the ground

Patrick Madden profiles France as they go unchanged for the first time since 2012

First France coach to name the same team for successive Tests since 2012

Jacques Brunel has retained the same French matchday 23 for the trip to Dublin

Critics claim France coach’s chopping and changing means he is unsure of his best backline

Coaches are juggling between being competitive in the Six Nations and planning for Japan

France bounce back from two defeats with morale boosting bonus point win

England player scored a first half hat-trick to make it two wins from two for Jones’s side

Ref Wayne Barnes had to inform player he had become skipper during France’s defeat to Wales

Warren Gatland’s side take French gifts and turn round a 16-point half-time deficit

Strength of Irish provinces bodes well with the start of the Six Nations fast approaching

Toulouse succumb to home side’s remorseless carrying and recycling

Leinster will top Pool 1 in Champions Cup with a win over Wasps next weekend

Former stalwarts like ex-Bandon RFC coach Sonnes helping club reclaim its old identity

Champions’ missing big guns tilts the balance towards confident Toulouse

Bad losers Bath in danger of losing the run of themselves with replay ‘appeal’

A 12th European Cup semi-final in 21 years for Munster as old foes brushed aside

All Black has not enjoyed previous visits to Thomond – and doesn’t sound confident now

Munster’s opponents have found status diminished as money floods into Top 14

Bordeaux-Begles outhalf says recent poor results fail to reflect French outfit’s ability

Leinster and Wasps show little difference in attack but Irish province are better in scrum

There’s a lot of praise for Ireland while the French team face a number of questions

Conor Murray and Johnny Sexton help Joe Schmidt’s side control full-on encounter

Ireland’s tormentor-in-chief believes old boss Guy Noves can deliver success for Les Bleus

What Joe Schmidt’s side will face at the Avivia Stadium

Ireland coach insists weather conditions will have to be adapted to with so much at stake

France’s new pod system has limitations which Ireland can exploit and expose

Prop Rabah Slimani, flanker Bernard Le Roux and wing Yoann Huget come in

Pat Lam’s brave side miss out on quarter-final slot by smallest of margins

Withstanding European aristocrats Toulouse on their own patch a tall order for Lam’s side

Outhalf Francois Trinh-Duc suffers broken arm during game in Toulouse