They also made 2019 a year to forget for rivals Dr Crokes who were losing their fourth major final of the year.

This week, Rituel is the Irish Examiner National Dairy Show 2019 Supreme Champion.

Defending champions Clonmel got their Munster Junior League campaign off to a winning start with a victory over one of their main challengers, Bandon.

Dublin 2-12 Wexford 0-12: Dublin claimed their first provincial title in four years as they overcame Wexford by six points in their Electric Ireland Leinster MHC final at Croke Park yesterday.

Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967.

Michael A Moriarty (Letters, December 12) described the war in Syria as the “conflict” — the use of inverted commas thus intimating that to describe what is happening there as conflict to be arguably inaccurate.

It was only a matter of time before the tragic killings in Paris would be exploited and Kevin McCarthy (Letters, November 18) has done that. 

The demonisation of the Palestinian people by Desmond Fitzgerald continues unabated (Letters, October 8).

A number of dubious claims were made by Desmond Fitzgerald in an attempt to bypass international law (Letters, October 2).

According to Michelle Moshelian (Letters, September 23rd) UNRWA and Arab states are guilty of not helping Palestinians ‘lose’ their refugee status.

Dermot Meleady claimed that for Jewish refugees of the Nazi holocaust, Palestine was “…their only available refuge…”

Castletroy College 20 Glenstal 10

Two players were sent off in a Munster Senior Schools rugby match following fighting between players from CBC and Castletroy at Annacotty yesterday.

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Two tries in three minutes helped fire Clongowes Wood to an emphatic victory in this Leinster Schools Senior Cup quarter-final at Donnybrook yesterday.

CRESCENT made a winning start to their Avonmore Munster Schools Junior Cup title defence at Rosbrien yesterday.

ALL known logic was almost defied as the Ireland Schools came within eight minutes of trumping all-powerful England in an adrenaline-fuelled FIRA U18 European Championship qualifier at Donnybrook yesterday.

LEINSTER’S U18 schools side left Cork with a victory over Munster to their names last night, just as their predecessors did 111 years ago.

OPPOSITION to the dreaded vuvuzela is beginning to escalate in England but sporting organisations here in Ireland are, in general, taking a more laissez-faire reaction to the ear-splitting plastic airhorn that provided the soundtrack to the first African-hosted World Cup.

CORK CITY, the club which refuses to die, was yesterday thrown not one, but two lifelines, as it battles to retain a place in the League of Ireland Premier Division.