The Ireland U20s have been dealt a fresh injury blow, as stand-in captain Cillian Gallagher is set to miss out on Friday’s crunch Six Nations encounter with France at Donnybrook.

The Cork hurlers must plan without long-standing defender Brian Murphy, as the Bride Rovers man has stepped down from inter-county activity.

Waterford 1-21 Cork 1-11: Shane Bennett didn’t travel on the team bus to Páirc Uí Rinn, his father Pat transporting him across the border.

Newtownshandrum 0-29 Sarsfields 0-27 (AET): Newtownshandrum rolled back the years in Fitzgerald Park, Fermoy yesterday, sending favourites and current champions Sarsfields down the route of the losers’ rounds of the Cork SHC after this epic extra-time first round victory.

Shandrum 4-20 Duhallow 2-16

Na Piarsaigh 3-15 Newtownshandrum 0-14

A century after the last senior rugby international on Leeside, the Ireland Club XV takes on England Counties in Cork this evening.

Designer clothes worth tens of thousands of euro are to be destroyed after a court ruled a retailer breached the Trademark Act by selling the clothes without permission from the manufacturer.

Blackwater CS 3-20 Charleville CBS 0-9

Mullingar Shamrocks 3-7 St Loman’s Mullingar 1-10

There are two changes to the Cork side for tomorrow night’s Munster Minor Hurling Championship semi-final second play-off with Clare at Cusack Park, Ennis (7pm).

Cork bounced back from their opening night defeat Limerick to hammer Kerry in this Munster MHC play-off clash at Austin Stack park on Saturday.

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The Ireland Club team that will defend their Dal Riada trophy in the Ulster Bank Club International against the Scotland Club team at Anglesea Road on Friday, March 9 has been named.

There are plenty of rugby traditions to baffle the uninitiated — New Zealand’s haka, the French smuggling cockerels into stadiums, clubs touring to the other side of the world for no practical reason whatsoever — and university rugby is no different.

THE last three Dr Harty Cup quarter-finalists will be determined today with crunch games in Ardmore, Clonmel, Tipperary Town and Cahir.

LANSDOWNE’S promotion ambitions suffered a serious setback in this fiercely-contested AIL division 1B clash at the Mardyke on Saturday afternoon, as UCC came from behind in the final quarter to turn an 11-3 deficit into a glorious victory.

Galwegians 13 UCC 6

DRAMA at the end of this cracking Harty Cup third round group game in Ballybrown yesterday, fortunes swaying first one way and then the other, a precious quarter-final berth at stake.

YOUNG MUNSTER turned the clock back two decades with a stirring ODM Munster Senior Cup triumph over gallant University College Cork at sunny Musgrave Park on Saturday.

ANYONE doubting the importance of Munster Senior Cup would be advised to talk to Conor Twomey and Mike Prendergast, the respective coaches of UCC and Young Munster who clash in today’s Musgrave Park decider (4pm).

THEY’RE a striking modern addition to the hills above Blackpool and the Ardpatrick scheme on Assumption Road is also handy for the new Revenue Commissioner’s offices in the immediate area.

UCC 32 Ballynahinch 10

FURTHER reductions in price should entice viewers to no 43 Ross Ard in Upper Glanmire, a large detached property that’s now down to €370,000 to sell.

Dungannon 3 UCC 21

UCC 19 Galwegians 13, The Mardyke

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A QUIET village location, with good infrastructure and strong community spirit, makes Tower in Co Cork a good spot to raise a family. And no 9 Laureston Crescent is big enough for a larger than average brood.

AIB LEAGUE DIVISION 1B:

Ballynahinch 28 UCC 21

A SAVAGE price cut means this two-bed apartment at 132 The Haven, Jacob’s Island, is now for sale at €240,000, a drop of €85,000.

TWO young men gave a terrifying account of how their three friends drowned when for no obvious reason their car veered off the road and ended upside down in several feet of water.

LESS than a month ago in a vital promotion clash, these two sides locked horns with Young Munster perhaps lucky to prevail 3-0 in the Mardyke.

PRICE reductions for quicker house sales are being flagged for city and county Cork properties.

PRICE reductions for quicker house sales are being flagged for city and county Cork properties.

A TWO-BED mid-terraced house at 13 Mount Oval Village in Rochestown in Co Cork could be just the thing for a first-time buyer.

A WATERSIDE setting in Crosshaven in Co Cork makes this four-bed unit a dream for sea lovers.

Shannon 51 Dolphin 7

Shannon 51 Dolphin 7

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Dolphin 24 Ballymena 24