CLONTARF put a major dent in Shannon’s title aspirations with a 29-8 win over the Limerick side in Saturday’s Ulster Bank League Division 1A clash at Castle Avenue.

Ulster Bank League Division 1A: Blackrock College 14 Cork Constitution 17

Cork Constitution 26 Clontarf 18

MUNSTER’S new signing, Will Chambers, and scrum-half Tomas O’Leary will both see game time for the Munster A team in the Sportsground, Galway, today against Connacht (kick-off 2pm).

IRISH squad member Mike McCarthy returns to Connacht for today’s final pre-season fixture with English premiership side Saracens in London (6.45pm).

ONCE AGAIN recently the spotlight was turned on independent, grass-roots food producers as the winners of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards 2011 were unveiled.

Ireland U-20 21 England U-20 36, Rosario

IRELAND’S Under-20 squad departed for Argentina yesterday for their IRB Junior World Championship campaign.

IT was Declan Kidney who said it first, but we would do well to heed his words – recent events notwithstanding, these are special times in Irish rugby.

Ireland U-20 coach Allen Clarke has named his team for their final IRB Toshiba Junior World Championship pool game against Uruguay in Nagoya on Saturday.

IRELAND Under-20 rugby coach Allen Clarke has included six Munster-based players in the 26-man national squad for next months IRB Junior WorldChampionship in Japan.

Ireland U20 Coach Allen Clarke has announced his 26-man squad for the IRB Junior World Championship tournament.

PBC CORK’s Brian O’Hara has the honour of leading Ireland out before his hometown crowd for their opening game of the U18 Six Nations festival tonight (Musgrave Park, 7.30pm).

PBC Cork’s Brian O’Hara will have the honour of leading the Ireland U-18 Schools team in his home town when they play Wales tomorrow evening in their first game of the U-18 Schools Six Nations festival in Musgrave Park.

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.

PBC 12 St Munchin’s 6

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 management has made several changes from the team that defeated Italy 22-5 in the first game of the Six Nations Schools tournament for their next game against France.

PBC head coach Don Buckley, along with his coaching ticket of Paul Barr (formerly of St Michael’s) and Highfield’s Steve Forde, have now led Pres to Senior Cup success in two of the last three deciders.

A RIVALRY that borders on legend should see an expected 8,000 crowd descend on Musgrave Park today for the meeting of age-old Cork schools Christian Brothers College and Presentation Brothers College in the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup final (kick off 3pm).

SCOTT DEASY’S staggering 69th-minute conversion from the right touch line and into a fierce crosswind saw Presentation College emerge victorious in this Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final at Dooradoyle yesterday.

CRESCENT COLLEGE Comprehensive’s Andrew Burke is out of the all-Limerick Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup quarter-final clash with Ard Scoil Ris at Thomond Park this afternoon (3pm).

The Ireland Schools Rugby international season began today with the announcement of the teams and replacements for the annual Irish Schools trial match between the Probables and Possibles selections.

Munster 8 Connacht 11

The three-year-old boy who died following a car accident last Friday has been named as Brian O’Hara from Ballycallan, Co Kilkenny.