Meath snatched victory from the jaws of defeat to take a major step in their quest for a return to top-tier football with this victory in driving snow at Páirc Tailteann yesterday.

There was a sensational ending to this fully-blooded Division 2 NFL encounter as a penalty goal from Barry Dardis in added time strengthened Meath’s promotion push at Pairc Tailteann.

A goal from Stuart Lowndes on 54 minutes proved decisive, as Dunboyne captured the Meath SFC for the first time since 2005 at Páirc Tailteann yesterday.

University of Limerick 3-19 Maynooth University 4-15 (AET): The footballers of UL used all nine lives and their get-out-of-jail card to sneak past Maynooth in this thrilling Sigerson Cup first round tie.

UL scored a dramatic victory in this hugely entertaining Sigerson Cup first round tie having twice looked down and out.

Dependent on team selection higher up, Munster A coach Mick O’Driscoll has rung the changes for tomorrow’s British & Irish Cup game with Yorkshire Carnegie in Lockwood Park, Huddersfield.

A Tipperary man who stalked and harassed his former girlfriend for over six months has been given a suspended sentence.

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.

U20 RBS 6 Nations 

One imagines Nigel Carolan and the rest of his U20s management team have spent many an hour poring over footage of England’s opening Six Nations loss to Wales in Colwyn Bay this last two weeks.

U20 RBS Six Nations

Under 20 RBS 6 Nations

Terenure College 43 The King’s Hospital 19: Munster Junior Cup: Terenure College turned on the style in the final-quarter to get the better of King’s Hospital in the opening round of the Junior Cup at Donnybrook yesterday.

Laois 1-07 Maynooth 0-18: NUI Maynooth eased to a convincing eight-point win over Laois in Portarlington last night.

O’Byrne Cup

Dublin beat NUI Maynooth 1-12 to 1-5 in the opening round of the Bord na Móna O’Byrne Cup at Parnell Park today.

UCD 25 Cork Con 25

Dublin 0-15 Meath 0-10

Dublin 0-14 Meath 1-05

Meath 2-10 Mayo 1-11

Meath marched into the Leinster minor football final following this comprehensive victory over Westmeath at Cusack Park, Mullingar, on Saturday.

Goals at the start of each half were crucial as Meath advanced to the Leinster MFC semi-finals with a win over Offaly in Tullamore yesterday.

A mother of three, whose social welfare has been cut off by the Criminal Assets Bureau, put over €210,000 in to a credit union account over the past 13 years, a judge has been told.

A mother-of-three, whose social welfare has been cut off by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), banked more than €210,000 in a Credit Union account over the last 13 years, a judge has been told today.

Favourites Terenure held out for a narrow win over Blackrock in a frantic Leinster Schools Senior Cup first round tie at Donnybrook.

A DECISION to move the Jesuit College to a new site at University College Dublin will net the order more than €150 million.

RTÉ has agreed to talks with disability groups over the controversial decision to scrap the only radio programme dedicated to issues around blindness.

MONEY-HUNGRY developers are forcing first-time buyers to fork out an extra €20,000 per property to cover the costs of levies imposed by councillors, a PD senator last night warned.

Government partners the Progressive Democrats are to challenge Minister for the Environment Dick Roche in the Seanad today over planning conflicts of interest in local authorities.

The plastic bag levy should be doubled to 30 cent, a Senator said today.

Progressive Democrats Senator John Dardis has come out in favour of a total ban on drift-net salmon fishing along the Irish coast.

THE vice-president of the European Commission yesterday gave an undertaking to follow up with the Competition Commission on its stand that forced the Government to withdraw an estimated €100m grant to Intel.

A last-minute fisted goal from Cork substitute Padraig Griffin spoiled what would have been a famous win for Westmeath, as Billy Morgan began his new term as Cork manager with a 1-8 to 2-5 draw at a sodden Pairc Ui Rinn in tonight’s Allianz NFL Division 1A clash.

Westmeath 0-16 Carlow 2-8

A Special Branch detective today denied that anti-terrorist detectives who rammed a car carrying explosive substances were engaged in a "keystone cops" operation.