There was once again a great response to the competition in last week's column, where we offered a pair of stand tickets for the forthcoming Six Nations game between Ireland and Italy at Lansdowne Road. This week's winner is Mark Purcell from Kilkenny and he will be contacted, like the previous week's winners, directly by the IRFU to organise the collection of tickets.

The answer to the question posed (who scored a hat-trick of tries against Scotland in the recent international at Lansdowne Road?) was of course Brian O'Driscoll.