Cistercian College Roscrea will aim to create history at the RDS this afternoon, when they seek to claim the Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup crown for the first time.

Blackrock College 23 Clongowes College 15:

U19 Interprovincials: Leinster were clinical defeating Munster (19-10) in Saturday’s U19 Interprovincial Championship at Templeville Road.

Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup final:

Clongowes Wood College stand between Blackrock College and their back-to-back Senior Cup aspirations, after Noel McNamara’s charges held off a strong showing from St Andrew’s College to book their place in the March 16 decider.

Two rugby players from a prestigious private school who were involved in a mass brawl have avoided a jail term.

Two rugby players from a prestigious private school will be sentenced next week for their involvement in a mass brawl which left a youth with a broken leg.

Munster U19 13 Leinster U19 32

Four years ago, staff and students from Methodist College applauded the cup-winning exploits of Craig Gilroy, Paddy Jackson and Adam Macklin.

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.

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

THEIR name bears that of a town in Munster, and they are referred to as a Tipperary school; yet their premises is located over the border in Offaly and they play their rugby in Leinster.

CONOR GILSENAN’S Clongowes Wood College will be molten hot favourites to complete back-to-back Powerade Leinster Schools Senior titles for the first time in their history at the RDS on St Patrick’s Day.

IT was as the bookmakers predicted; a seventh Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup title for Clongowes Wood College whose 14 points salvo in the opening minutes of yesterday’s decider at the RDS proved decisive.

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).

THE indefatigable Tom Cooper has written an important and uncomfortable letter (March 1) on the subject of the cynical exploitation of the Irish war dead in the First World War.

BARRY O’CALLAGHAN took over the role of chief executive at Riverdeep, now EMPG at the age of 30. Before coming on board at the educational media company Mr O’Callaghan was an investment banker for nine years working in London, New York and Hong Kong.

ONE of the most disturbing things to emerge from the recent budget mess is the decision to stop block grants to Protestant schools. This will result in many of those mainly rural second-level schools having to close in isolated areas where they are very few in number.

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.

ONE SWING of Ciaran Wade’s right boot, in the last action of a frantic match at Donnybrook, sent this Powerade Leinster Schools Senior Cup quarter-final to a replay.

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.

IT’S six o’clock on Wednesday evening and Richard Kearney is making the first of two visits to Donnybrook this week.

St Mary’s College 34 St Gerard’s School 22

The Ireland Under 19 team to meet Japan in Durban on Wednesday for the right to take part in the 9th-10th place play-off next Sunday has been named.

South Africa U-19 32 Ireland U-19 8

Ireland Under-19s face the daunting task of meeting host nation South Africa in the IRB World Cup in Pietermaritzburg this afternoon.

The Ireland Under 19 team to play Georgia Under 19 in Kings Park, Durban on Friday has been named.

Irish Schools 20 Irish U19’s 5

The Irish Schoolboys will be looking to continue their unbeaten run in their Australian tour when they take on a strong Australian 'A' side in Sydney tomorrow afternoon.

The Irish schoolboys' rugby team secured their fourth victory of their tour to Australia when they beat a strong New South Wales Combined High Schools side 27 - 22 at Eastwood RFC in Sydney.

DIARMUID LAFFAN will captain Ireland from blind side wing forward in the schools rugby international against Wales at Donnybrook on Saturday (6pm).

THIS is a big weekend for schools rugby.

The Irish Schools Selectors have selected the following teams to play against Ireland U19 XV and Irish Youth XV on Monday, December 29 at Terenure RFC.

Leinster Schools16 Munster Schools17

The Leinster Schools Squad to tour the UK this weekend to face Leicester and Yorkshire on October 31 and November 1 has been named.

The Preliminary Leinster Schools trial teams have been announced.