Ireland coach Nigel Carolan has been forced to make a late change ahead of their opening game in the World Rugby U-20 Championship against Argentina in Parma today.

Winger Jack Conlin’s 51st minute try proved decisive as Royal Belfast Academical Institution collected the Dansk Bank Ulster Schools’ Cup for the 30th time at the Wingspan Stadium yesterday.

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

The Ireland U18 Schools team were defeated by England (30-14) in Saturday’s FIRA/AER European Championship final in Wronki, Poland.

Ballynahinch remain in control of Division 1B after digging deep to see off a committed Dublin University side 26-22 at Wallace High School.

They had streamed through the gates of Ravenhill many times before, but never for an occasion like this.

A woman who survived a farming accident which killed a young rugby star, his father and brother has been released from hospital.

The world is a cruel place.

The death of a young rugby star, his brother and their father in a farming tragedy in Northern Ireland has caused deep shock and disbelief, community leaders said tonight.

Team mates of a young rugby star killed in a farming tragedy alongside his brother and his father in Northern Ireland have said he was a wonderful sportsman and a wonderful person.

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

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.

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 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 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.

Ireland U18s 19 England U18s 38

Ulster Schools 10 Munster Schools 0

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 favourites RBAI emerged victorious against Wallace High School in the Ulster Schools senior Cup final at Ravenhill today.

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

Wallace High School overturned Royal School Armagh 10-0 last night, thanks to tries from Thomas Shorten and number eight Chris Henry, in their Ulster Schools Senior Cup second round replay.

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.