GROUNDBREAKING stuff in Dublin 4. St Gerard’s have never won the Leinster Schools Senior Cup but they paid scant attention to history yesterday by seeing off defending champions and 66-time winners Blackrock in this nip-and-tuck quarter-final.

BACK rowers Lorcan Smyth and Seamus Hennessy struck for two late tries to see Cistercian College Roscrea through to the final of the Powerade Leinster Schools Vinnie Murray Senior Cup final at Naas RFC yesterday.