The National Boy 1,2 & 3 Championships commenced at the National Stadium in Dublin yesterday with thirty seven preliminary round and quarter final bouts in the Boy 1& 2 categories.

Saracens' Darragh O'Mahony has enjoyed a successful career in England but, when the Corkman watches Munster taking on Stade Francais in the Heineken Cup quarter-final this weekend, he will find it hard to submerge a certain sense of regret. Hugh Farrelly met him in London.

ST FRANCIS’ COLLEGE in Rochestown, on the outskirts of Cork, isn’t a factory for Irish internationals but, surprisingly, for a school that has really only tinkered with rugby, Kelly was the fourth old boy of recent vintage to be capped for Ireland.

Cork native Darragh O'Mahony has signed a new two-year contract with Saracens.