51-time champions Blackrock College will face Castleknock College in the Leinster Schools Junior Cup semi-final following their emphatic triumph over Clongowes Wood at Donnybrook.

Ivory Coast set up a final showdown with Zambia after Gervinho’s solo goal saw them past Mali in Libreville last night.

A schoolboy has been charged with murder after a 15-year-old fellow pupil was stabbed to death in a hallway at his high school in an affluent Boston suburb.