A section of motorway was closed for a number of hours yesterday after a man was killed when he was hit by a truck.

Neither Lansdowne nor Young Munster can lift the Ulster Bank League Division 1A title, but they’re both in a position to decide who does as the chase for top club honours goes down to the wire next weekend.

Tullamore became the first club to win the All-Ireland Junior Cup twice in an entertaining final at Dubarry Park in Athlone on Saturday.

ULSTER BANK ALL-IRELAND JUNIOR CUP - FIRST ROUND RESULTS:

Crosshaven 17 Monivea 9

LIAM DELANEY kicked Crosshaven into an All-Ireland Junior Cup final with Monivea after this tense last four tie in Cork on Saturday.

THE final of the Munster Junior Clubs Challenge Shield is the showpiece event on the Munster Junior rugby scene this weekend while the four Cup semi-finalists in the Junior Clubs Cup all face difficult away trips in the All-Ireland Cup.

BRUFF’S fairytale season continued apace as they earned a crack at the AIB All-Ireland League Division Two crown next month with a convincing semi-final win over Terenure College.

THE All-Ireland League round-robin series comes to a conclusion this weekend with Munster representatives Richmond needing a miracle if they are to secure themselves a play-off place.

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).

The Ireland U-18 Club team, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, to play Germany in the opening game of the FIRA-AER U-18 Tournament in Treviso has been named.

GARRYOWEN joint coach, Greg Oliver reckons scrum-half Conor Murray possesses all the attributes to don the Munster senior No 9 jersey.

The postponement of two of the AIB Senior Cup quarter-finals yesterday did not prevent the draw for the semi-finals taking place today.

BLACKROCK COLLEGE exacted revenge for last season’s AIB All-Ireland Cup final defeat to Shannon with a thrilling 41-27 win at Stradbrook on Saturday.

IT’S a story heard countless times a year up and down the country: player plays under an assumed name, opponents smell something fishy, complain and succeed in getting the result overturned.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association have named a twelve strong squad for the European Schoolboy Championships in England next month

The National Boy 1,2 & 3 Championships commenced at the National Stadium in Dublin yesterday with thirty seven preliminary round and quarter final bouts in the Boy 1& 2 categories.

WITH the first round of games having taken place, this weekend’s matches in the AIB All-Ireland Junior Round Robin series will take on extra significance as the sides will have a clearer idea what effect the result will have on their senior aspirations.

TWO of the four games in the quarter-finals of the AIB National Cup will have a local edge.

The following is the draw for the AIB Cup quarter-finals, to be played on Saturday, February 11:

The following are the Munster and Connacht Junior 15s to play in Kinsale on Saturday at 3pm.

Highfield continue to lead the way in Division Three, after they edged out a determined City of Derry 25-20 at Woodleigh Park this afternoon, on a day when seven out of eight home sides won.

Buccaneers 32 Lansdowne 14, Dubarry Park

AIB league results

COMPETITION sponsor AIB has given the seal of approval to the forthcoming All Ireland Leagues, notwithstanding some discontent amongst the Irish clubs at the way the domestic game has been handled by the Irish Rugby Football Union.

The Ireland Youths/Under 18 team to play Wales U18 in Kelso RFC, Scotland on tonight at 5pm is as follows:

Veteran Galway defender Tomás Mannion is unlikely to feature for his county this year.

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