Matt O'Connor welcomes back the experienced duo of Mike McCarthy and Jordi Murphy for Leinster's game against Zebre on Sunday.

THE decision by the Taoiseach to publicly support same-sex marriage will mean he is about to have a fight on his hands, firstly from conservative Fine Gael backbenchers but, more volubly, from the leaders of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Mount Leinster Rangers (Carlow) 1-15 Castletown-Geoghegan (Westmeath) 1-13

IRB JUNIOR WORLD CUP POOLS:

The Ireland Under-20s were within a converted try of a famous win over perennial IRB Junior World champions New Zealand at the end of a titanic tussle in Vannes.

Irish U-20 coach Mike Ruddock believes his side can follow up on last year’s stunning opening day victory against South Africa by again laying down an early marker in the opening game of the Junior World Championship against Australia in Vannes this evening (5.45pm Irish time).

Mike Ruddock has given his blessing to the decision to call Robbie Henshaw and Stuart Olding into the senior tour to North America next month rather than make the pair available to his U20 side at the upcoming Junior World Cup.

A Dublin man has been given a life sentence for murder and his two co-accused have been jailed for manslaughter of a 27-year-old ‘model worker’ they killed on his way to work.

The Central Criminal Court has heard a 27-year-old Polish man died after three men attacked him in North Dublin for "a buzz".

Captain Dan Leavy was the try-scoring driving force behind St Michael’s second ever Leinster Schools Senior Cup, denying Clongowes a first three in a row in an enthralling final at the RDS yesterday.

After an exciting Leinster Schools Senior Cup campaign the pre-tournament favourites are the last two standing ahead of tomorrow’s final.

A 20-year-old Dublin man will be sentenced to life in prison for murdering a "model worker" as the victim walked to work in Dublin.

A jury will resume its deliberations tomorrow morning in the trial of a Dublin man charged with murdering another man as he was walking to work.

A murder trial jury has heard that the deceased was "in the right place at the right time" when "he was "kicked to death" and "left to die".

A murder trial has heard today that the dead man's blood was found on the defendant's shoes in a pattern consistent with kicking or stamping.

A teenage girl has told a murder trial today that, shortly after the attack, the defendant had blood on his clothes and was saying that he had jumped on the victim’s head.

History was created in Croke Park on Saturday evening when Mount Leinster Rangers became the first team from Carlow to win an All-Ireland club title.

The jury has been discharged in the trial of three Dublin men accused of murdering a 27-year-old Polish man on his way to work in 2010.

Three Dublin men have gone on trial for the murder of a Polish man who was attacked as he walked to work in Coolock.

A man charged with the murder of a Polish national, who was attacked in Coolock, in Dublin last October, was served with a book of evidence today and sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court.

Two men charged with the murder of a Polish national, who died after he was attacked in Coolock, in Dublin, have been further remanded in custody as the State prepares its evidence.

A 17-year-old boy, who is one of three defendants charged with the murder of a Polish national, in Coolock, in Dublin last October has been allowed to take up bail.

TWO men and a 17-year-old boy have been charged with the murder of a Polish national who died after he was attacked in Coolock in Dublin last October.

Two men and a 17-year-old boy were charged today with the murder of a Polish national, who died after he was attacked in Coolock, in Dublin last October.

ALL known logic was almost defied as the Ireland Schools came within eight minutes of trumping all-powerful England in an adrenaline-fuelled FIRA U18 European Championship qualifier at Donnybrook yesterday.

The State has been given another four weeks to get the DPP's directions in the case of two men charged with assaulting a Polish national, who died after he was attacked in Coolock, in Dublin.

A second man was charged this evening over an assault on a Polish national, who died after he was attacked in Coolock, in Dublin last month.

A 20-year-old man charged with assaulting a Polish man in Dublin, who later died in hospital, has been refused bail and remanded in custody.

Two teenagers questioned about a violent attack on a Polish man who died have been released without charge, gardaí confirmed today.

A Polish man who was assaulted in Dublin at the weekend has died in hospital.

A man has today been charged following an assault in Dublin which has left a 27-year-old Polish man fighting for his life.

Three Coolock brothers, whose mother reported them to gardaí after she saw them rob a Chinese food delivery man, have been sentenced to a total of 13 years for various crimes, including robberies.

GARDAÍ are looking to retrieve a unique chain, worth in the region of 20,000, which was stolen from a famous Dublin college last Sunday.