Aviva

The national team, of course, have played Chicago twice against the All Blacks and another against Italy, all at Soldier Field.

However, Six Nations must remain at the Aviva due to the terms of the stadium sponsorship deal, it's understood.

So, the IRFU dismissing any suggestion of a Six Nations game going overseas.

Yeah, you wouldn't see a Six Nations game in Cork or Belfast or anywhere else, never mind... over in the States.

It's the, you know, South Africa and New Zealand will play this weekend at Baltimore.

It's a sellout of 71,000 and it's all kind of leading towards the 2031 World Cup in the USA and they're trying to sell the game of rugby to the American people, which they've been trying to do for the last probably 20, 30 years really.

And it's been promised as this great game that it's it's it's the best parts of american football it's faster and all this and i'm not sure what the buy-in is yet the success of soldier field for ireland and new zealand and then baltimore this weekend would suggest it's growing um and we have a good relationship with american rugby as well a lot of our players that um may not be cut out for maybe irish international people go over and try their hand over in the mlr and have great success over there but yeah i i Kevin Potts the CEO Irish rugby CEO was shooting it down fairly quickly in that one there's the commercial side of it that all games will have to take place in the Aviva Stadium in the Six Nations all home games but I think there's a sentiment of no one wants that because I don't think you should be making Irish fans it's different when it's a one off game against New Zealand like that in Soldier Field but if you're there's the fan yeah it's a competitive game but it's bringing the fans over where it should be a home game you only get a certain amount of home games in Six Nations and that's one of them you shouldn't have to be travelling for that but then it's also the cost of travel for the players and the staff there's so much that goes into it so I don't think it makes sense and I'm glad they've shut it down to be honest

yep That's fair.

Now, almost three quarters of drivers in Ireland support the use of technology to monitor driving behaviour and to encourage safer driving.

New research from Aviva Insurance Ireland also suggests there are still significant gaps in drivers' understanding of how telematics works and the potential benefits.

I'm joined by Alan Bean, who's Product and Underwriting Manager at Aviva Insurance Ireland.

He joins me with more on this.

Good morning to you, Alan.

So if you're driving better, you're staying true to speed limits, that your acceleration isn't high and stuff like that, it's good information for you as an individual driver and for the vast majority of insurers that lead to lower premiums then when the data flows through.

So the actual telematics device monitor when someone is driving, can you be a bit more specific as to how the information is used by insurers?

yeah so again it's the information it's going to vary by insurer by insurer but the vast majority of it is your speeding your braking acceleration kind of the distance that you've traveled and that information then is taken in and it's absorbed in and what it does is that overall information goes towards creating like a driving score for someone and it's true that driving score that your pricing would be but it's not just on pricing it's All that information then, so for the likes of Aviva customers, we have a MyAviva portal where customers can log in and they can see their driving score.

This is-

So basically, you log onto aviva.ie/reboot.

Reboot with Aviva.

Reboot.

With Aviva, it's called.

Yep.

Yeah.

And you just kinda, you log on, and I think it just counts how many boots have gone in and out, and that's it.

I think if you're a, a center forward, you're more bothered about scoring goals and thinking, "I hope he nicks this ball so we can get in behind." So, about being a captain, it's more, yeah, he could very well possibly be a captain, 'cause some captains lead by what they do on the pitch, not necessarily vocally, just, you know, what they do when they have the ball.

But, uh, I think that the best thing, like, nobody feared coming to the Aviva.

Nobody was bothered about playing the Republic of Ireland, 'cause we were half a, a possession-based team that couldn't keep the ball.

We weren't exactly attritional.

So Michelle, what are we looking at here?

So here's Catherine McKenna, and she's with the G7 Investors, and these are all the big pensions, like OMERS, Caisse de Depot, CalPERS, Aviva, etc., etc.

This is the Ontario Teachers.

So birds of a feather hang together.