Sporting Digest: Rugby Union
Ireland's seven-match tour to South Africa next May and June will include two Tests against the Springboks. Ireland will play Scotland under lights for the first time in an A international at Donnybrook on 6 February.
A sin-bin system will be introduced by the Irish RFU, on an experimental basis, in AIB League Divisions One and Two matches from 3 January.
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