LANSDOWNE 13 UL BOHEMIANS 17

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.

Lansdowne 30 Bruff 18

CLONTARF 25 LANSDOWNE 18

Dungannon 21 Lansdowne 18

DIVISION 1B: UL Bohemians 19 Lansdowne 9

Lansdowne 61 UCC 13

Buccaneers 22 Lansdowne 16

Former UCD out-half Eoghan Hickey has signed a one year contract that will see him move from London Irish to London Wasps as back-up to Danny Cipriani and Dave Walder.

Cork Constitution 18 Garryowen 8, Musgrave Park

Ireland international Bob Casey will lead London Irish into their first Heineken Cup semi-final against Toulouse at Twickenham on Saturday.

Irish scrum-half Eoin Reddan has played down his connections with London Wasps ahead of Ireland's Six Nations showdown with Wales this weekend.

London Irish have signed Cambridge University fly-half Ross Broadfoot and scrum-half Ross Blake on short-term contracts.

Treviso 11 London Irish 24

London Irish 41 Dragons 24

Brian Smith is confident London Irish can put a frustrating away day at Welford Road behind them and blow Guinness Premiership form team Sale Sharks off course tomorrow.

London Irish 48 Worcester 27

MUNSTER have appointed recently retiring full-back Shaun Payne as their new team manager.

IT won’t have pleased Munster that they finished third of the four Irish teams in the Magners League, but there were some positives to take from Saturday’s comprehensive win over bogey side Glasgow Warriors.

WHILE the Garryowen coach Paul Cunningham was lauding his team for not conceding a penalty in the dying minutes of Saturday’s AIB All-Ireland League final at Musgrave Park, his opposite number, Brian Walsh of Cork Constitution, was berating referee Alan Lewis for allowing the new champions to get away with what he regarded as serious infringements within touching distance of their own posts.

Cork Con 15 Garryowen 16

CORK CON captain Frank Cogan does not believe ‘home’ advantage will be a major factor when they take on Garryowen in the AIB League Division One final at Musgrave Park on Saturday.

Clontarf 15 Garryowen 28

Garryowen ran amok at Dooradoyle, posting a seven-try win, to beat off their Limerick rivals Shannon for a place in the Division One semi-finals.

GARRYOWEN ended a 13 year drought without a national title with this AIB All-Ireland Cup final victory on Saturday.

Garryowen 20 Belfast Harlequins 7, Dubarry Park

MUNSTER Senior and Junior Cup champions Garryowen are favourites to add the AIB All-Ireland Senior Cup to their trophy cabinet against Belfast Harlequins at Dubarry Park, Athlone this afternoon(4pm).

TOP Munster players, captain Paul O’Connell, Peter Stringer, David Wallace, Shaun Payne and Alan Quinlan are all ruled out of Saturday’s Magner’s League clash with Llanelli at Musgrave Park (7.30).

Munster's Eoghan Hickey is to leave the club at the end of this season to join London Irish.

Munster coach Declan Kidney has named Anthony Horgan in the Munster squad for the first time since January when they travel to Neath-Swansea Ospreys in the Magners League on Saturday.

RARELY has a scoreline offered a more distorted picture of 80 minutes of rugby.

OVER the course of last season, when Munster won the Heineken Cup, which province had the best home support? You’re absolutely right – it was Ulster.

IT WAS always going to be an enormous task, but makeshift Munster pulled out all the stops to secure a dramatic and well merited victory over Ulster at Ravenhill last night.

Ulster 21 Munster 24

Munster make seven changes from the side that played Cardiff Blues for the trip to Ravenhill in the Magner's League on Friday night.

Brian Carney has been named in a Munster squad for the Magner's League tie against Ulster on Friday night first time on foot of the announcement of his two-year contract last week.

MUNSTER’S tale of woe continued as they slumped to a Magners League defeat at Musgrave Park last night.

Munster 12 Cardiff 19

MUNSTER have been given a huge boost with the news that John Kelly and Trevor Halstead have been restored to full fitness.

Munster coach Declan Kidney makes four changes, from the side that started against Border Reivers, for Friday's Magners League clash with Cardiff Blues.

SUGGEST to Garryowen coach Paul Cunningham that his team is having ‘an up and down kind of season’ and he will courteously but firmly put you in your place.

MUNSTER marched on to their seventh win this season with a forward-inspired victory over a lightweight Border Reivers side in last night’s Magners League match at Netherdale.

Borders 0 Munster 36

Terenure College 22 Clonakilty 31