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The deal, reportedly worth up to $15 million, includes settling the debts of the franchise, but Kanaloa's chief executive, Tracy Atiga, claims their offer has been ignored by the Moana board.

The former Samoa women's player was speaking on Mike Hosking Breakfast on New Zealand's Newstalk ZB.

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off the balls rugby daily with bank of ireland a proud sponsor of connacht leinster munster and ulster rugby never stop competing you're very welcome to wednesday's rugby daily i'm cameron hill now coming up for you today a new contract for ireland star hugo keenan brian o'driscoll explains how the tmo actually works for big games and another wales legend calls time on his playing career

But first up today, Leinster and the IRFU confirmed yesterday that Hugo Keenan has signed on for another two years.

The full-back has put pen to a contract extension running until the summer of 2028.

Keenan has earned 46 senior caps for Ireland since his debut back in October of 2020, having moved back to Union after a few seasons with the Ireland Sevens.

He's missed most of this season with a couple of injuries, so he required surgery on a hip issue picked up during last summer's Lions Tour of Australia and had been gearing up for a return to Ireland duty in the Six Nations before injuring his hand in their training camp in Portugal and missing the entire championship.

He's hit the ground running since making his comeback from that latest issue, however, he's scored three tries in his five appearances for Leinster this term.

Keenan played the full 80 in Leinster's semi-final win over Toulon in the Investec Champions Cup at the weekend.

Three-time winner Brian O'Driscoll joined Owen Cheyhan on last night's off the ball and they discussed the comments by head coach Leo Cullen after the game in which he accused onlookers of putting the boot into his team.

Who do you think he's speaking to on Saturday in particular?

Brian also gave his thoughts on the controversy surrounding Bordeaux's win in the other last four clash on Sunday.

So Yannick Brous' side were 38 points to 26 winners at home to Johan van Graan's Bath.

But after the game, van Graan criticised the host broadcasters for not allowing the officiating team to review a number of incidents of potential foul play.

Then on Monday, said broadcaster France Television offered a strong rebuttal of the criticism, claiming that it is the referee who's in charge of the pictures they're shown.

Brian offered a really insightful explainer on how exactly the TMO works alongside the host broadcaster.

Now that full chat with Brian O'Driscoll is available right now in the OTB Rugby podcast feed.