Christians and Pres will be keen observers of Wednesday's Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup quarter-finals at Market's Field as four colleges bid to join them in the semi-finals.

International referee Andrew Brace goes into Six Nations action in ten days time when he handles the clash of Wales and Italy but after handling his first Clayton Hotels Munster Senior Schools Cup tie at Thomond Park readily admitted that he could hardly enjoy such an auspicious occasion any more than he did this clash of Limerick rivals St Munchins and Ardscoil Ris.

A Tipperary man has issued an emotional appeal for aid to fund a surgery in Los Angeles that could make him blind but is the only alternative to the pain he is in now, writes Amy Ryan.