Ireland Club’s coach Paul Cunningham is expecting a stern test and plenty of top class rugby in tonight’s Ulster Bank sponsored Dalriada Cup clash with Scotland at Temple Hill, Cork (7.30pm).

Longford 0-16 Offaly 0-13: In a streaky game where both sides thrived on confidence, ultimately Offaly’s lack of self-belief cost them when they saw the finishing line.

Ireland Clubs 12 French Clubs 37: Ireland’s Club team head coach Paul Cunningham was left ruing two unforced errors as France Fédérale left the Aviva with a 25-point victory.

Cratloe 2-12 Éire Óg 0-11

Derry 2-14 Longford 2-16

Longford 2-14 Limerick 0-9

Wicklow 1-15 Longford 0-16

Wicklow 1-15 Longford 0-16, Aughrim

Derry 0-14 Longford 0-05

Derry 0-14 Longford 0-5

Longford 1-12 Wexford 0-13

Big pitch, two teams that like to play expansive football... game on.

Longford boss Glenn Ryan was “delighted” with the battling qualities shown by his team who came from behind to earn a draw and promotion in Thurles on Saturday night.

Longford recovered from conceding a couple of goals in the early stages to eventually get the better of neighbouring rivals Roscommon in a highly entertaining Allianz FL Division 3 encounter at Brothers Pearse Park.

Margins have been fine in this year’s Munster Senior Schoolgirls Cup, and it took sudden-death penalty strokes to crown Bandon Grammar as the 2012 champions in yesterday’s dramatic decider in Rosbrien.

JACK BRADY and sub Donal Smith struck second-half goals as DCU, without several key players, advanced to the O’Byrne Cup semi-final at Ballymahon yesterday.

THE drawn match had been an engrossing and tightly-balanced affair but Cloyne’s complete superiority ensured there was to be no repeat in Saturday’s Cork SHC third round replay in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

MEATH reversed a first-round result to advance to the Leinster MFC final at the expense of Louth at Navan’s Páirc Tailteann last evening.

CORK boss Brian Cuthbert has made three changes for Sunday’s Munster MFC final against Tipperary from the team that defeated Clare in last month’s semi-final in Cusack Park in Ennis.

THAT Ballymartle were within two points of Cloyne at half-time in this Cork SHC round two game in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday owed much to the brilliance of keeper Declan McCarthy; that they were ahead at the end of the hour, owed just as much to the accuracy from placed balls of his namesake Darren McCarthy in midfield as it did to the corresponding inaccuracy of a succession of Cloyne free-takers.

DEFENDING champions Sarsfields got off to a winning start in the opening round of the Cork SHC at Carrigtwohill on Saturday, but they were forced to sweat before overcoming a stubborn Cloyne challenge.

MARK McCALLON netted a golden goal in Mullingar yesterday to keep Garrycastle on track for an historic Leinster Club SFC football title. Not alone has the Westmeath club never won the provincial title, but no team from the Lake County has ever managed to annex the provincial crown.

Garrycastle (Westmeath) 1-8 Ballyboden St Enda’s 0-6

Ballyboden St. Endas 1-10 Rathnew 1-7

THEY MAY have ridden their luck, but St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra will feel they deserved to qualify for the final of the Ulster Bank Trench Cup at the expense of Trinity College, Dublin at CIT yesterday.

IRELAND’S young club stars get an opportunity to test themselves against a visiting French region in Ashbourne, County Meath on Sunday (noon).

Irish Schools 20 Irish U19’s 5

John Dwyer collected the Spar Moran Cup at Royal Dublin but had to survive shootout drama with Neil Manchip after the pair shared a five-under-par 67.

Des Smyth, a five-times winner, goes into the last round of the Smurfit PGA

Despite a brave bid by Des Smyth, defending champion Paul McGinley is the

Philip Walton put in a stroming finish at sunny Castlerock when he carded a two-under-par 71 to snatch the overnight lead in the first round of the £110,000 Smurfit PGA Irish Region Championship.

Smurfit PGA Irish championship qualifier at Seapoint