Monaghan and Carlow have booked their places in round three of the All-Ireland Football Qualifiers.

Leitrim couldn’t live with the tempo of the Rossies.

Owen Mulligan’s London debut ended in disappointment as Leitrim escaped from McGovern Park with a narrow victory.

Pat Lam will bid to get rid of one of Connacht’s remaining hoodoos when he hopes to lead them to a first win in Belfast since 1960 this evening.

Sligo 2-15 Leitrim 0-10: Shane Ward has indicated he wants to stay in charge of Leitrim for a third year after their 2016 championship campaign came to a halt in Sligo on Saturday evening.

A disastrous start left Ireland with an impossible task when they fell 19-0 behind after just 15 minutes at Stadio Zaffanella last night.

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 winner-take-all clash with New Zealand is Ireland’s prize for Saturday’s four-point victory (24-20) over Scotland in Saturday’s World Rugby U20 Championship Pool game in Calvisano.

Ireland’s promising hooker Zack McCall says the World Rugby U-20 Championship is a huge stepping stone for anyone hoping to become a professional rugby player.

Nigel Carolan may be in charge of the Irish U20s at a world championship for the first time but the Galwayman has been involved with enough underage national sides to know they face a tough test against Argentina today, 3.30pm (live on TG4).

Over and over again and again, Galwegians sang their club anthem ‘The Blues are we’ and danced and celebrated long into Saturday night in Galway after their nerve wracking Ulster Bank AIL victory over Garryowen at Crowley Park.

Munster A 33 Connacht Eagles 13: Munster A showed flashes of brilliance during their comprehensive win over the Connacht Eagles at Thomond Park yesterday.

Scotland U20 17 Ireland U20 10 

Nigel Carolan has asked his Irish U20 side to finish their campaign positively in Netherdale tonight by returning to the full-throttle game which has been suffocated by two defeats in a row.

RBS U20 6 Nations

The Grand Slam hopes are already dashed, but the Ireland Under-20s can still take a step towards lifting the Six Nations title when they take on Wales at Parc Eirias tonight (7.45 pm).

Three second-half goals propelled Mayo to their first victory in the Connacht U-21 football championship for three years last night.

Ireland U20 coach Nigel Carolan still believes ‘the championship is there for the taking’ ahead of tomorrow night’s crucial RBS 6 Nations clash with Wales (Parc Eirias, Colwyn Bay, 7.45pm).

More misery for Munster with the selection of just four of their players on Nigel Carolan’s expanded Ireland squad of 30 for the U20 Six Nations.

New Zealand U20s 45 Ireland U20s 23

IRB JUNIOR WORLD CUP SEMI-FINAL:

U20 WORLD CUP:

France 19 Ireland 13

Ireland begin their quest for Junior World Cup glory in Auckland on Monday, facing an onerous task against Six Nations champions France (QBE Stadium, 6.35am, Irish time, TG4).

Belvedere gained some measure of compensation for their tame exit out of the Leinster Senior Cup by edging out Cistercian Roscrea in the Senior Plate final yesterday.

Cistercian College Roscrea came up shy in a pulsating Leinster Schools Senior Cup first-round replay at Maynooth 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.