Belvedere College held off the spirited challenge of St Mary’s College at Donnybrook to book their spot in the Leinster Schools Senior Cup quarter-finals.

Castleknock College held off a spirited fightback from Cistercian College, Roscrea at Donnybrook Stadium yesterday to book their place in the Leinster Schools Senior Cup quarter-finals.

Leinster Senior Schools Cup quarter-final: St Mary’s College 32 Cistercian College Roscrea 29

A pub in Dublin had to call Gardaí to a mass brawl on the street outside after a Leinster Schools Senior Cup game between Terenure College and St Michael’s College.

Gonzaga College 41

Cistercian College Roscrea 24 Clongowes Wood College 18: Cistercian College Roscrea’s quest for a second successive Leinster Schools Senior Cup triumph remains on course, after Brian Diffley’s 61st-minute try helped them to edge a compelling semi-final showdown with Clongowes Wood College, at Donnybrook yesterday.

Landing Cistercian College Roscrea’s first ever Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup was sweet. Sweeter maybe than an All-Ireland football title to a Kerryman.

Cistercian College Roscrea 18, Belvedere College 11:

Leinster Schools Senior Cup: Cistercian College, Roscrea 17 Blackrock College 14

Blackrock College 39 Terenure College 11: Leinster Schools Senior Cup, first round: Blackrock College’s quest for a third consecutive Leinster Schools Senior Cup title began in devastating fashion against Terenure College at Donnybrook yesterday.

All systems go for a re-match of the 2013 Leinster Schools Senior Cup final after holders Blackrock College were drawn against St Michael’s College in the quarter-final draw at Old Wesley RFC yesterday.

Leinster’s back line options, already weakened after the summer movements, have been further reduced ahead of the new season with the news that Eoin O’Malley has been forced to retire from rugby at the age of 25.

In his own words Ronan O’Gara was “shocked” when Declan Kidney omitted him from the Irish squad.

Bray 3 Kilkenny College 10

Newbridge College 12 King’s Hospital 5

Captain Dan Leavy was the try-scoring driving force behind St Michael’s second ever Leinster Schools Senior Cup, denying Clongowes a first three in a row in an enthralling final at the RDS yesterday.

After an exciting Leinster Schools Senior Cup campaign the pre-tournament favourites are the last two standing ahead of tomorrow’s final.

St Michael’s secured a Leinster Schools Senior Cup final shot with holders Clongowes Wood after a titanic tussle with Kilkenny at Donnybrook yesterday.

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

Cistercian College Roscrea came up shy in a pulsating Leinster Schools Senior Cup first-round replay at Maynooth yesterday.

Favourites Terenure held out for a narrow win over Blackrock in a frantic Leinster Schools Senior Cup first round tie at Donnybrook.

Roscrea must feel aggrieved by the 17 minutes of injury-time played before St Michael’s fly-half Ross Byrne landed an equalising penalty to send this Leinster Schools Senior Cup first round tie to a replay at Maynooth yesterday.

THIS one-sided Leinster Schools Senior Cup final ended in a victory for tournament favourites Clongowes Wood College, who retained their title with a scintillating display of power and precision at the RDS yesterday.

ALMOST from day one of this season’s Leinster Schools Senior Cup campaign, Clongowes Wood and St. Michael’s were lined up as two of the big favourites to make this afternoon’s St. Patrick’s Day decider at the RDS (3.30).

GROUNDBREAKING stuff in Dublin 4. St Gerard’s have never won the Leinster Schools Senior Cup but they paid scant attention to history yesterday by seeing off defending champions and 66-time winners Blackrock in this nip-and-tuck quarter-final.

WHEN a wolf tried to go munchin’ on a chicken yesterday he got much more than he bargained for.

Former Leinster and Ireland coach Gerry Murphy has been employed as the new Provincial Domestic Team Manager.

THERE are few fixtures more compelling for sheer atmosphere than the Leinster Schools Senior Cup final sponsored by Powerade, which this year moves to a new home at the RDS.

ST MARY’S College eclipsed Gonzaga in the Leinster Schools Senior Cup quarter-finals, and now wait on the winners of today’s clash between CBC Monkstown and St Michael’s College.

The New Stand at Donnybrook will be officially opened this Sunday before the Leinster Schools Senior Cup first round match between Belvedere College and Terenure College

THE IRB Under-19 World Championship has a high profile around sunny Belfast.

There is a confidence sweeping through Irish rugby and Ireland U19 centre, Conor Cleary, is caught in the slipstream.

IT WAS neither a classic nor a game for the purist, but that won’t matter to St Michael’s College who created history in Donnybrook yesterday by lifting the Leinster Schools Senior Cup for the first time, a feat that sparked emotional after-match scenes.

TOMORROW will be an emotional day at Lansdowne Road, the day when fans and players, former and present, say goodbye to international rugby at the rickety old stadium.

Leinster clubs came one step closer towards capturing the Remax Towns Cup after completing the first round today.