Rockwell College held on for an impressive Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Junior Cup win over Presentation Brothers College, beating the Cork men 16-13 in Musgrave Park.

Bride Rovers were crowned Cork U21AHC champions at Páirc Uí Rinn today, adding to the Cork Premier 2 minor hurling championship and league titles already secured this season.

A powerful performance from Luke Swan left Kilkenny in a flap as the Dublin minor hurlers blasted their way to Leinster glory.

Italy 22 Ireland 21: Munster’s Calvin Nash ran in a couple of tries, but Ireland’s hopes of reaching successive World Rugby U20 Championship finals took a nosedive as Italy pipped them at the death in Georgia.

Ireland U20 head coach Peter Malone is looking forward to having another crack at New Zealand as he prepares to bring his side into battle for this summer’s World Rugby U20 Championships in Georgia, writes Daire Walsh.

Ireland 10 England 14: Gavin Coombes’ late try was not enough to deny England U-20s a Grand Slam as Nigel Carolan’s side fell just short in Donnybrook.

Ireland U20 coach Nigel Carolan insists his side wouldn’t lack for motivation against Grand Slam- chasing England at Donnybrook this evening (6pm).

Italy U20 26 Ireland U20 27: The Ireland U20s withstood a powerful challenge from Italy in Prato last night, before securing their second consecutive one-point victory in this year’s Six Nations Championship.

Munster A couldn’t have faced a stiffer challenge than the champions in today’s B&I Cup opener with London Welsh at Towns Park, Midleton (2.30p.m.), but coach Peter Malone believes his young side will be up to the task.

Rockwell 22 Glenstal 3: Rockwell cruised into their fifth SEAT Munster Schools’ Senior Cup final in six years at Thomond Park yesterday.

Laois u21s 2-10 Dublin u21s 2-21: When the dust settles on the 2015 season, Dessie Farrell and his Dublin U21 footballers might well look back on this one as the one that crowned them.

Laois 4-12 Wexford 1-11

Munster Schools Senior Cup: Glenstal 6 Crescent 3

Castletroy College 20 Glenstal 10

Garryowen 15 St Marys College 24

Douglas 1-14 Dohenys 3-07

Douglas 1-10 St Vincent’s 1-05

Ballincollig 2-10 Douglas 1-07

Leitrim 4-19 New York 0-07

Leitrim 4-19 New York 0-07

St Mary’s College 19 Cork Constitution 24

Cork Constitution 12 St Mary’s College 30

Tipperary 1-20 Limerick IT 2-12

The remaining big challengers for the Ulster Bank title will have sat bolt upright after taking stock of Dolphin’s clinical bonus point victory at Musgrave Park on Saturday.

Young Munster 16 St Marys College 14

Duhallow 0-13 Douglas 1-9

Douglas 2-14 Newmarket 0-4

What goes around comes around — it’s an adage often used in sport but rarely can it have been as true as it was in Ennis last night for this Munster U21 hurling championship final.

Seven times since the inception of this competition in 1964, Clare have met Tipperary in the Munster final and seven times they have lost.

This was a tame defence of their Munster U-21 hurling title by champions Limerick at the rain-sodden Gaelic Grounds last night.

For those of you nostalgic for the way hurling was played before the days of tactics and game plans, for those of you who long for the time when you got real value for money at the turnstile, the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick is the place to be this evening, as Limerick face Tipperary in the first semi-final of the Bord Gáis Energy Munster U21 hurling championship.

Holders Limerick have named a powerful side for tomorrow’s Munster U21 semi-final clash with Tipperary at the (Gaelic Grounds 7.30pm).

When these teams met in the opening round of last year’s Cork SFC, they had to contend with dreadful conditions as Douglas emerged with a one-point win.

Stephen Coen and Adrian Marren inspired Sligo to a straight forward victory in the Bronx in this one-sided Connacht quarter-final yesterday.

Sligo 3-21 New York 0-06

Two goals in the space of two minutes in the opening half proved decisive as Carlow went on to an eight-point victory over Wexford in their Leinster MFC losers’ section at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow, last night.

PBC booked their place in the semi-final of the Avonmore Milk Munster Schools’ Junior Cup with an excellent performance at Musgrave Park.

FULL-BACK Gavin Dunne was the star of the show for St Mary’s College last night as his 15-point haul sent the Templeogue side joint top of the Ulster Bank Division 1A table.

Dublin 4-15 Kildare 0-5

Douglas 0-7 Na Piarsaigh 1-3

ST BRENDAN’S CS, Birr were the convincing inaugural winners of the All-Ireland Community and& Comprehensive Schools U-17½ hurling championship title after they overwhelmed Blackwater CS of Waterford at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny yesterday.