A crucial weekend for C & S UCC Demons as they face a double header, beginning tomorrow with a visit to the capital for a clash with Eanna, following by a mouth-watering home clash against Swords Thunder on Sunday.

Wallace High School is not a name which has yet been engraved as winning rugby’s second oldest trophy.

Colin O’Reilly has laid down a challenge to players hopeful of making the Men’s Premier League All-Star team competing at the Sino-European Championships in July.

Team Montenotte’s unbeaten record in the Women’s Premier League is sure to be tested when they play joint leaders Courtyard Liffey Celtics at Upper Glanmire Sports Centre tomorrow.

Methodist College 27 Sullivan Upper 12

Killester will be crowned men’s Premier League champions if they beat UL Eagles tomorrow and Bord Gáis Neptune on Sunday.

He is Ulster’s first-choice out-half and prominent among the new breed of 10s breathing down Jonathan Sexton’s neck for the right to don Ireland’s number 10 jersey but the time has come to cut Paddy Jackson some slack.

It's not every day you nearly upstage the most powerful man in the world.

They were rival fly-halves at school who evolved into professional team-mates, but although Paddy Jackson’s potential at No 10 forced Luke Marshall to move a step further along the backline, it is Marshall whom both agree is the more free-spirited of the pair.

As Ireland international selection calls go, Declan Kidney’s choice to toss in Ulster’s Paddy Jackson against Scotland ahead of Ronan O’Gara is pretty seismic.

Ulster Rugby have secured the services of Craig Gilroy until the summer of 2016 with the winger today signing a three-year contract extension.

Ulster head coach Mark Anscombe has handed competitive debuts to Sean Doyle, Nick Williams, Rob Herring and Michael Heaney for Friday evening’s RaboDirect PRO12 encounter against Glasgow at Ravenhill (7.05pm).

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

Methody ensured there was no upset in the Ulster Senior Schools Cup final as they swept aside underdogs Ballyclare High School at Ravenhill yesterday.

Irish athletics chiefs and competitors last night played down the poor performances at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul.

The New Year has brought a bonus for Ulster Rugby supporters with the news that scrum-halves Ruan Pienaar and Paul Marshall have each signed new two-year contracts, keeping them at the club until June 2014.

BELFAST is on a roll.

PUPILS from one of Cork’s most famous schools are set for the royal performance of a lifetime.

ULSTER’S burgeoning teenager Paddy Jackson could make a shock Magners League debut against the Scarlets in Llanelli this evening.

HISTORY-MAKER Craig Gilroy, the first person to score a try at the new Aviva Stadium, gets a chance to put down a marker for Ulster when he faces London Harlequins at the Stoop tomorrow in the second of three pre-season friendlies.

IRELAND will be bidding to advance to their third FIRA-AER U18 Championship decider in four years when they face Georgia in tonight’s semi-final at Casale Sul Sile, Treviso, (7pm, Irish time).

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).

IRELAND prop Tom Court and Scottland winger Simon Danielli have agreed new two-year deals with Ulster.

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.

A CONTROVERSIAL France try, seven minutes from time, denied Ireland a famous victory in an entertaining schoolboy Under-18 international at Temple Hill last night.

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 Ireland schools team defeated Italy 22-5 in the first game of the Schools tournament in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Ireland Schools selectors have named a 26-strong squad to take on Japan U19s this weekend and also to represent Ireland at the 6 Nations U18 tournament to take place in Glasgow from April 8 to 14.

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.

Ulster Rugby has confirmed that hooker Rory Best has signed to the province for another two years and Ireland Under-21 scrum-half Paul Marshall has accepted a one year full-time contract.

THERE are two changes due to injury to the Ireland U19 A team to playAustralia Schools in Donnybrook tomorrow (2pm).

Ireland U18s 10 Scotland U18s 0

Ulster Schools 10 Munster Schools 0

A partner at a leading Northern Ireland estate agency joked about the breeding habits of Catholics and the size of their families, a Fair Employment Tribunal heard today.

The Irish Schools team will attempt to continue their run of victories when they take on the England Schools in St Mary's RFC in Dublin on Saturday at 3pm.

CLONTARF, Lansdowne and Ballymena will be joined by either Buccaneers or Belfast Harlequins in the top four play-offs for the AIB League title this weekend.

The big Belfast rivals RBAI and Methodist College will go head to head in a schools cup semi-final showdown at Ravenhill next Tuesday.

Ulster Schools number eight Chris Henry inspired his Wallace High School to a 11-11 draw at Royal School Armagh.

The trial for the Ireland School's side takes place in Blackrock College, Williamstown, on Saturday at 2pm with several of last year's Ireland XV featuring on the Paul Nash (St Mary's College)-led Probables side.

The Ireland team to play France in the Bank of Ireland schoolboy International in Galway on Saturday week has been announced.