This bus, if anything could capture the essence of Ballyhale Shamrocks, must be the vehicle.

If pre-season training is a bit like going back to school, it was fitting that Fergus McFadden was continuing his Leinster preparations on the pitch where it all started a little more than 15 years ago.

NOT A great week for clubs in rugby, if you look at the headlines.

IT WAS last week that Limerick played Wexford in a senior hurling challenge to mark the official opening of the new clubhouse and pitch of Ballybricken-Bohermore.