The Ireland U18 Schools team were defeated by England (30-14) in Saturday’s FIRA/AER European Championship final in Wronki, Poland.

Villiers School are back in the hockey big time after qualifying for the All-Ireland Schoolboys Championships, for the first time since 2005, at Garryduff yesterday.

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TRIES from centre Chris Farrell and winger Rob Haldane fired Campbell College to their 23rd Ulster Senior Schools Cup at Ravenhill 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.

IRELAND senior men’s coach Paul Revington is hoping consistency of selection will help his side spring a major surprise when they get their World Cup qualification campaign underway in Argentina next month.

SHANE QUINN is set to continue his amazing streak of victories when he contests the intermediate 3,000m at the Irish Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore this morning.

The Ulster recruitment drive continues at pace with the announcement former Ulster and Ireland players Jonny Bell and Niall Malone have both been appointed as Elite Player Development Officers.

BRIAN GREGAN (St Mark’s, Tallaght) added his name to Patsy McGonagle’s 4 x 400m relay squad when he smashed the record with a run of 47.49 seconds at the Leinster Schools championships at Morton Stadium.

IRELAND will get one last shot at redemption when they take on Italy in the final outing of the U18 Six Nations Festival at Cork Institute of Technology today (2.30pm).

Ireland U-18 Schools coach Peter Melia has made sweeping changes to his team ahead of their final outing against Italy tomorrow in the U-18 Six Nations Festival.

Michael Kelliher and David McSharry will form a new centre partnership for the Ireland U18 Schools team that takes on Scotland tomorrow and are two of six changes, two of which are in personnel, to the side that lost to Wales in their opening game of the U18 Six Nations Festival.

PBC CORK’s Brian O’Hara has the honour of leading Ireland out before his hometown crowd for their opening game of the U18 Six Nations festival tonight (Musgrave Park, 7.30pm).

PBC Cork’s Brian O’Hara will have the honour of leading the Ireland U-18 Schools team in his home town when they play Wales tomorrow evening in their first game of the U-18 Schools Six Nations festival in Musgrave Park.

THE week long Six Nations Under-18 rugby tournament, which gets underway in Cork tomorrow, is estimated to be worth in excess of €500,000 to the economy of the city.

The Ireland school selectors have named their 26-man squad for the forthcoming Six Nations U-18 Festival that will be held for the first time in Cork over the Easter period.

NINE Munster representatives start for the Ireland Schools Under-18 side in tonight’s tasty friendly against their French counterparts at Temple Hill (7pm).

THE KitKat Irish Schools team will be back in action at the SIAB Schools’ International in Newport, Wales on Saturday.

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The nominees have been announced for the annual Guinness Ulster Rugby Awards Dinner which will be held on Thursday May 18, at the Ramada Hotel.

A former teacher was today jailed for three-and-a-half years for indecently assaulting six girls while he privately tutored them in his home.

The Ireland Schools team to play England schools tomorrow in the opening game of the U18 4 Nations Schools tournament shows two personnel and three positional changes to the side that played against France last weekend in a friendly.

IT has been a truly memorable two weeks for Irish sport.

AMY FOSTER, silver medallist at the European Youth Olympics a few weeks ago, revelled in the sunshine at Tullamore on Saturday when she won a gold medal in the 100m, took silver in the 200m before anchoring the Irish schools to silver in the 4x100m relay at the international track and field match between Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.

A top Northern Ireland school has owned up to a failure to protect pupils from sexual abuse, it emerged today.

A school where six boys were sexually abused by another pupil is facing legal action by one of the victims, it was confirmed tonight.

Six boys were victims of multiple sex abuse at a top fee-paying school, a damning report revealed today.

ULSTER may have slipped down the Celtic League table after losing the last three games, but they’ll still go all-out to protect an enviable home record against Munster at Ravenhill this afternoon (5.15pm).

An inquiry is to be held into allegations of sexual abuse at one of Northern Ireland’s top preparatory schools, it emerged today.

Royal School Armagh qualified for the Ulster Schools Senior Cup final against Campbell College at Ravenhill on St Patrick's Day by virtue of their 16-10 semi-final win over Ballymena Academy.

ULSTER COACH Alan Solomons has hit out at plans to reduce the Celtic League programme ahead of this evening’s Irish derby clash with Munster at Ravenhill (7.30 kick-off).

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The Irish Schools team to play France in Rodez, (South of France), on Saturday has been announced.

The Irish Schools team to play England Schools in Cambridge on Saturday 30 March at 3.00pm is named.