Michael Collins was the hero for Newbridge College at Donnybrook as his late penalty sent holders St Michael’s College crashing out of the Leinster Schools’ Junior Cup.

Clongowes Wood College will face Castleknock College in the Leinster Schools Senior Cup semi-final after they ran in eight tries to get the better of St Gerard’s, Bray at Donnybrook

Champions St Michael’s College eased into the Leinster Schools Senior Cup semi-finals with a comprehensive win over Gonzaga College at Donnybrook in a repeat of last year's final.

David McCann will captain the Ireland Under-20s as part of a 37-man Six Nations squad dominated by Leinster players.

Kerry GAA chairman Tim Murphy has said the main governance challenge facing the association is volunteers being held to account in areas where they may not have sufficient expertise.

On the wall of a diner on Derrylin’s main street, hangs a picture of two men, tracksuited and beaming.

Look, we know what it’s like in Croke Park at half-time of a major game.

St Michael’s College produced a remarkable final-quarter fightback at Donnybrook to claim the Leinster Schools Junior Cup title at the expense of previous champions Blackrock College.

St Michael’s College were crowned Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup champions for the third time in their history with an emphatic victory over Gonzaga College at the RDS Arena.

Ross Byrne can complete an interesting treble for Leinster should he make his Ireland debut off the bench against Australia at Allianz Stadium this morning.

Ross Byrne can complete an interesting treble for Leinster should he make his Ireland debut off the bench against Australia at Allianz Stadium this morning.

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.

The past weekend was a golden one for the Irish provinces against their English counterparts, but Leinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster isn’t getting carried away with talk of a power shift in the Champions Cup.

Cistercian College, Roscrea will face Gonzaga College in the quarter-finals of the Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup, following their narrow victories over CBC Monkstown and Castleknock College yesterday.

If Éamonn Fitzmaurice thought Kerry’s backroom team was getting too friendly, he knew there was one addition who wouldn’t be slow to throw in a scud or two in the dressing room. In Liam Hassett’s lexicon, ‘beaten’ doesn’t exist...

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Ireland’s new captain Josh Murphy says the squad has put the disappointment of the New Zealand loss behind them and are now determined to claim fifth place in the World Rugby U20 Championship.

A schoolboy who died following a playground incident had a bright future, a priest told mourners at his funeral.

The funeral is taking place in Co Fermanagh of Belcoo schoolboy Oisin McGrath.

Teachers and fellow pupils of a teenage boy who died after he was injured during a playground incident have said they are profoundly saddened.

In a week when the plight of the inter-county GAA player has been prominently described as "depressing", any conversation with an Irish Premier League basketball player is worth starting with asking what that experience is like, writes Kieran Shannon.

The wait for CAO offers is not a worry for a young woman who will soon be winging her way to Germany to further her career as a violinist.

Yesterday thousands of Leaving Cert students got their results. Here are some of the stories that filtered through to us.

Ireland’s top-scoring school leaver is optimistic the country’s fortunes can turn around by the time he leaves college.

A student who suffered a serious head injury during a schools’ rugby match has secured €2.75m damages, plus costs, under a settlement approved by the High Court.

The mother of a young student who underwent surgery for serious head injuries after he collapsed at the end of a school rugby match has told the High Court she was upset when the school later advised her he could not stay there.

A student who was injured after he got a knock to the head during rugby training but played in the final minutes of a schools’ match 17 days later sustained another head injury and ended up brain damaged, the High Court has heard.

Holders Blackrock College remain on course to secure back-to-back Leinster Schools’ Junior Cup crowns after the Justin Vanstone outfit ruthlessly put CUS to the sword 53-0 in 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.

Ireland U-20 captain Luke McGrath believes they can crown their first ever meeting with Australia at this level with a victory in the opening game of the Junior World Championships.

HE was known as “Pio”.

LAST week we had a perfect example of how this country works.

I COULD introduce the ‘kingdom’ of Kerry with a description of its incomparable physical attributes, from Cahirsiveen to Ballybunion, but a few well-taken photographs would eclipse my most passionate prosopography.

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.

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.

THE financial director of one of the country’s most exclusive private schools has been charged with stealing thousands of euro in funds from the elitist facility.

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.