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BBC News
2 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
British and Irish Lions 2025: Where are they playing this summer?
The British and Irish Lions kick off their 2025 rugby tour against Argentina in Dublin on Friday 20 will be the first time that the Lions have played in Ireland and also their first match under head coach Andy Farrell. Friday's fixture is their only game before they leave for a nine-match tour of who are the Lions and where are they playing this summer? Keep reading to find you excited for the tour? Let us know what you're looking forward to in the comments below. Who are the Lions? The Lions are a team made up of rugby union stars from England, Ireland, Wales and do not have to have already played for their national side, they just have to be available for selection by one of those four put together every four years to face one of the world's best rugby teams - rotating between Australia, New Zealand and South tour, the Lions play a selection of warm-up games before three Tests against the host country. Most recently, the Lions lost their Test series against South Africa in 2021, by two matches to one. The Lions last played in Australia in 2013. Who's in this year's squad? British and Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell has selected 38 players for their tour of and Saracens captain Maro Itoje, a Test regular in the 2017 and 2021 series, will lead the squad for the first are best represented with 16 players, England supply 13, Scotland seven and Wales have two players in the is the full squad list for this summer's tour:Captain: Maro Itoje (Eng)Props: Finlay Bealham (Ire), Tadhg Furlong (Ire), Ellis Genge (Eng), Andrew Porter (Ire), Pierre Schoeman (Sco), Will Stuart (Eng)Hookers: Luke Cowan-Dickie (Eng), Ronan Kelleher (Ire), Dan Sheehan (Ire)Second rows: Tadhg Beirne (Ire), Ollie Chessum (Eng), Scott Cummings (Sco), Maro Itoje (Eng), Joe McCarthy (Ire), James Ryan (Ire)Back rows: Jack Conan (Ire), Tom Curry (Eng), Ben Earl (Eng), Jac Morgan (Wal), Henry Pollock (Eng), Josh van der Flier (Ire)Scrum-halves: Jamison Gibson-Park (Ire), Alex Mitchell (Eng), Tomos Williams (Wal)Fly-halves: Finn Russell (Sco), Fin Smith (Eng), Marcus Smith (Eng)Centres: Bundee Aki (Ire), Huw Jones (Sco), Garry Ringrose (Ire), Sione Tuipulotu (Sco)Wings: Elliot Daly (Eng), Tommy Freeman (Eng), Mack Hansen (Ire), James Lowe (Ire), Duhan van der Merwe (Sco)Full-backs: Hugo Keenan (Ire), Blair Kinghorn (Sco) Where is the 2025 Lions Tour taking place? Aside from their Dublin fixture, the Lions will play six tour matches and three Tests in Australia on the following days: Friday 20 June - Lions v Argentina, DublinSaturday 28 June - Lions v Western Force, PerthWednesday 2 July - Lions v Queensland Reds, BrisbaneSaturday 5 July - Lions v NSW Waratahs, SydneyWednesday 9 July - Lions v ACT Brumbies, CanberraSaturday 12 July - Lions v Invitational AU & NZ, AdelaideSaturday 19 July - Lions v Australia, first Test, BrisbaneTuesday 22 July - Lions v First Nations & Pasifika XV, MelbourneSaturday 26 July - Lions v Australia, second Test, Melbourne Saturday 2 August - Lions v Australia, third Test, Sydney
News.com.au
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Shakira breaks own record with two new shows in Mexico
The first will take place on 18 September at Mexico City's Estadio GNP Seguros. The second will mark her first-ever performance in the state of Veracruz, where she will perform at the Estadio Luis Pirata Fuente on 24 September. With the new dates, the Hips Don't Lie superstar has broken her own record for the most shows in Mexico on a single tour - now reaching a total of 28 on this trek. "With the announcement of this new date, the Colombian singer solidifies herself as the artist with the most concerts at the iconic Estadio GNP Seguros," promoter OCESA announced in a press release.
Perth Now
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Reason behind accounting ‘mistakes'
Guy Sebastian's former manager 'made mistakes' in accounting towards the end of the pair's tumultuous relationship because his mother had become ill, the period marking the 'hardest time in (his) life'. Titus Emanuel Day is standing trial for allegedly embezzling $640,000 of Mr Sebastian's royalties and performance fees, including the alleged failure to remit $187,000 to Mr Sebastian for performance fees as a support act for Swift on her 2013 Red tour of Australia and other corporate gigs and performances. Mr Day has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of embezzlement as a clerk or servant and one count of attempting to dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception. He has denied doing anything fraudulent or dishonest. Mr Day took the stand to give evidence-in-chief on Friday, telling the court how issues had begun to 'creep in' to his management company, 6 Degrees, as a result of pressure sparked by his mother's declining health around 2016. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 4, 2025. Titus Day (C) arrives at the Downing Centre Court on Wednesday. Guy Sebastianí•s former manager Titus Day is standing trial on allegations he embezzled money from the pop star. NewsWire / Nikki Short Credit: News Corp Australia SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire - 05 JUNE 2025: Guy Sebastian leaves the Downing Centre in Sydney. Christian Gilles / NewsWire Credit: News Corp Australia He told the court his mother was diagnosed with advanced Alzheimer's dementia around 2015. By the time she came to live with he and his family in 2016 she was so ill she was in a 'zombie state', prompting his wife, Courtney, to effectively step aside from her work at the company to care for his mother. The court was told his wife played a 'critical' role at 6 Degrees, with her duties ranging across creative work such as video clips, music production, songwriting production and dealing with record labels: when she left, Mr Day had to 'pick up all the slack' and delegate work to other staff. Another high level employee also had to step aside to care for Mr Day's mother at one point. 'Personally this was probably the hardest time in my life,' Mr Day told the court. He said all of his clients 'suffered' as a result, and that he'd made some accounting 'mistakes' during this period and could no longer be with clients on tours. 'Because my attention was taken away, but also spread thin, it affected all my clients - all my clients suffered,' Mr Day told the court. 'My accounting slipped, I wasn't able to send statements or invoices…I made mistakes in transactions and banking descriptions.' He spoke of one example where he accidentally paid Mr Sebastian money from another of his clients, Nigerian-Australian singer Timomatic, and then paid Timomatic money from Mr Sebastian. Titus Day told the court issues began to 'creep in' to his management company, 6 Degrees, as a result of pressure sparked by his mother's declining health. NewsWire / Nikki Short Credit: News Corp Australia '(I) made a lot of mistakes on banking descriptions…a lot of issues started to creep into the company because of the pressure,' Mr Day said. Mr Day's barrister, Thomas Woods, earlier told the court that there would be 'no dispute' that on some occasions his client should have transferred money onto Mr Sebastian 'but did not'. 'For many of the charges, the real question is not going to be whether my client failed to transfer the money to Sebastian but whether his failure to do that was criminal,' Mr Woods said. The former manager's evidence-in-chief regarding the 'mistakes' mentioned on Friday is expected to continue next week. Mr Day has denied doing anything fraudulent or dishonest. In terms of business growth, Mr Day told the court 2016 was the company's busiest and most successful time, having taken on a range of clients across music, sports and media. He said it was an 'extremely busy' time and he was personally receiving more than 300 emails per day, acknowledging he had 'a lot less' time to devote to Mr Sebastian as opposed to the early years of their agreement. Guy Sebastian arrives at the Downing Centre Court. NewsWire / Nikki Short Credit: News Corp Australia The 'really big shift' in the pair's relationship Mr Sebastian moved over to Mr Day's management company 6 Degrees three years after winning Australian Idol, having worked with him previously at Mr Day's former agency, 22 Management. No formal agreement was signed, but the court was told their agreement was based on Mr Sebastian's former arrangement with 22 Management. The Battle Scars singer, who was once so close with Mr Day he considered them to be a 'a family of sorts', earlier claimed he'd sent several emails to Mr Day around 2016 over concerns with their relationship, telling the court there was a 'really big shift' between them around that time. In particular Mr Sebastian claimed documents, statements and invoices 'were not being sent anymore'. 'That side of it and then some cultural issues that were happening as well and just a general shift in the service I was being provided,' Mr Sebastian previously told the court. 'I understand (6 Degrees) were getting busier as a company and that the list of clients had grown … that was starting to have some real ramifications on my business and personally as well. 'I was trying really hard to remedy these issues.' Mr Sebastian told Mr Day that he was leaving his management in 2017, the court was previously told. Mr Sebastian launched Federal Court proceedings against Mr Day the following year. He in turn filed a counterclaim.
CBC
6 hours ago
- Business
- CBC
Here are some new Ottawa River attractions to check out this summer
The National Capital Commission has been working to vamp up infrastructure along the Ottawa River. Natalia Goodwin takes a tour of some of the new attractions.
The Independent
7 hours ago
- Sport
- The Independent
Lions break new ground in lucrative tour opener — but Argentina clash has selection significance too
Perhaps, given the composition of the squad and staff, Dublin is the only appropriate place for this British and Irish Lions summer to begin. A deep Irish brogue has been evident throughout the delivery of the tour from the moment Andy Farrell was confirmed as head coach, a record contingent of 15 familiar faces taken with him in the quadrennial assembly and much of his coaching team Dublin-drawn, too. There are heavy connections in the Wallabies camp, too, Australia head coach Joe Schmidt having laid the foundations upon which his former assistant has most impressively built. Come matchday, the Lions will be cloaked in familiar red, but even their training kits have been green in their week in the Emerald Isle. The long lineage of this touring team is still able to break new ground with Friday night's encounter with Argentina under the glass banks of the Aviva Stadium the first time the Lions have had an outing on Irish soil. Such encounters may only be an hors d'ouevre to the feast of rugby to follow once Farrell and his squad land down under, but these fixtures are commercially significant, and give those unable to travel to Australia a swim in the sea of red – provided they can stomach the prices for tickets, travel and lodgings in a city where a certain level of surging comes with the territory on rugby weekends like these. There has been an undercurrent of chitter-chatter, verging on criticism, about the heavy Irish influence in Farrell's squad, which was brushed away brusquely by assistant coach Johnny Sexton this week. 'Well, Ireland have done pretty well over the last few years, having won the [Six Nations] championship last year, the grand slam the year before, so you're probably looking over the last three years,' Sexton rather rightly said, before pointing out that their familiarity with the head coach would probably prove useful as the Lions race to get up to speed. 'They know the way Andy coaches, they know the system. It didn't surprise me because historically, let's say when there was a Welsh coach and the Welsh team did well, there were the majority of the Welsh team. I think the teams that performed the best in the Six Nations got selected.' Even with a squad selected, grumbles of a parochial and patriotic nature will continue to rumble as Farrell begins the unenviable task of narrowing down Britain and Ireland's 38 best and brightest to 23 across the seven games that precede the first Test in Brisbane on 19 July. It is much too soon for anyone, let alone the boss, to draw definitive conclusions, but those selected to take on the Pumas will want to stake an early claim in front of a capacity crowd. There will be a few more Dubliners confined to a watching brief, of course, Farrell understandably electing not to risk those involved in securing Leinster's United Rugby Championship (URC) triumph across the city at Croke Park six days ago – excepting Ronan Kelleher, required to back-up Luke Cowan-Dickie with workmate Dan Sheehan the only other hooking option in the squad. He will at least have a club and country chum for company: Tadhg Furlong's return from a calf problem is most welcome, with tighthead a developing area of slight concern after Zander Fagerson's withdrawal. 'He's fit and ready to go," Farrell said of Furlong, with the rest of his injury concerns (Huw Jones, Jamison Gibson-Park and Hugo Keenan) all tracking well to be back available next week. 'He's trained well and as keen as everyone else to get the show on the road. There's always one or two bumps and bruises that you're trying to nurse – that's the nature of rugby. We're in good shape.' The absence of the Leinster lot – and Premiership finalists Finn Russell, Will Stuart and Ollie Chessum, plus otherwise-engaged Top 14 semi-finalist Blair Kinghorn – made selection relatively straightforward for this opening game, yet there is nonetheless plenty of intrigue. The deployment of Tom Curry, Jac Morgan and Ben Earl replicates a tactic successfully used by England during the Six Nations, with three openside options backed up by another in Henry Pollock to ensure a pack of jackals ready to scavenge on whatever the Lions bring down. A partnership between Bundee Aki and Sione Tuipulotu, meanwhile, could yet be revisited come the Tests, with both far more than just a crash-and-bash wrecking crew, though likely to provide plenty of front-foot ball from which the Smiths, Fin and Marcus, can play their tunes. One would not expect sweet music just yet, though. These tour curtain-raisers aren't always the easiest watches, the Lions often still fumbling and feeling their way into things as the squad settles. The encounter with Japan four years ago is perhaps only remembered for nearly costing Warren Gatland his tour captain, Alun Wyn Jones, while the heat and humidity of Hong Kong made for an uninspiring opening half-hour against the Barbarians in 2013. There is perhaps value in a first hit-out, though: the Lions forwent a fixture of this ilk in 2017 and very nearly found a jet-lagged line-up turned over by a group of Kiwi provincial part-timers. Perhaps the most apt comparison, though, is the 2005 encounter with Argentina in Cardiff – though Farrell will be hoping for rather better than a dreadful draw that set the tone for a disastrous tour. That Pumas side was far from full-strength but was captained by a certain Felipe Contepomi, now head coach, having been such a critical part of a remarkable rise over the last two decades. This is something of a homecoming for the former centre, back in a fair city where he spent six years as a Leinster player. While his squad is not at full strength – bench depth is an issue, with a few key figures involved in the Top 14 or injured – there is all sorts of talent in the starting side: Julian Montoya, Juan Martin Gonzalez, Rodrigo Isgro and Santi Carreras were all among their club's top Premiership performers last season and the classy Tomas Albornoz continues to make the No 10 shirt his own. They could well prove tricky prey.
