Your Sunday rugby round-up.

Three teams in the lower half of All-Ireland League Division 1A all won on Saturday

Simon Lewis Dragons coach Bernard Jackman is under no illusions about the size of the task his side face when they welcome Guinness PRO14 champions Leinster to Rodney Parade this evening.

Munster’s love affair with the B&I Cup came to an end yesterday when they bowed out to arch-rivals Leinster at the quarter-final stage of a competition that will cease to exist after this season.

Leinster A 17 Munster A 6: Munster A were stripped of their B&I Cup title by Irish rivals Leinster A at Energia Park, Donnybrook today in a tight match that was in doubt for much of the 80 minutes.

With two man of the match awards to his credit in the RBS Six Nations U20 campaign, Jack O’Sullivan now makes the cut with Munster A for today’s B&I Cup quarter-final against Leinster at Donnybrook.

Five of Ireland's U20 rugby squad have suffered injuries which will prevent them from playing any further part in the World Championships in Georgia.

The New Zealand Under-20s avenged last year's World Rugby U-20 Championship defeat to Ireland in emphatic style by romping to an eleven-try 69-3 victory in sweltering Kutaisi.

Ahead of Ireland’s opening game in the World Rugby U20 Championship against Italy tomorrow at the AIA Arena in Kutaisi, Jack Kelly revealed that being released from his original role of team captain has taken some pressure off his shoulders.

The Ireland U20s have been dealt a fresh injury blow, as stand-in captain Cillian Gallagher is set to miss out on Friday’s crunch Six Nations encounter with France at Donnybrook.

St Michael’s College 25 St Andrew’s College 7

Clontarf 17 Old Belvedere 20

Lansdowne 21 Old Belvedere 20

A Rob Lynch-inspired Limerick Celtics overturned a seven-point interval deficit to edge past Moycullen 32-27 in the Munster Joinery-sponsored Men’s Premier final at the 45th annual Castleisland Christmas Blitz on Monday night.

A former Siptu official has blamed garda inquiries for his refusal to co-operate with a Dáil committee investigation into a ‘slush’ fund he managed.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee has been refused permission to compel former Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery to appear before it after both previously declined.

Classy Clonoe O’Rahilly’s despatched champions Errigal Ciarán with a thumping semi-final win at Dungannon yesterday.

Siptu was unaware of the existence of a “slush fund” operated by one of its senior staff because its name was “misleading”.

The Comptroller and Auditor General will today submit a report to the Houses of the Oireachtas on his investigation into a controversial fund controlled by a number of Siptu officials.

Number 8 Michael Graham was the hero for Ballynahinch at College Park as his injury-time try helped Ballynahinch to a dramatic 28-21 victory over Dublin University.

Kildare and Longford advanced to a Leinster final, while Donegal, Derry, Down and Cavan won through to the Ulster semi-finals in the Cadbury Under-21 Football Championship today.

Tries from back rowers Pierce Dargan and Jack Kelly helped Dublin University defeat Dungannon 24-16 at Merrion Road as the students held onto second place in Ulster Bank League Division 1B.

The President of SIPTU has said the payment of money by the Department of Health into an unauthorised SIPTU account is "immensely damaging" to the union.

THE country’s largest trade union, SIPTU, has been accused of withholding information from a major HSE inquiry.

AN EXCELLENT Scoil Íosagáin performance after half-time earned them victory over Scoil Eoin, Ballincollig in the Allianz Sciath na Scol F3 final at Páirc Uí Rinn, Cork, yesterday.

THERE were plenty of household names, old friends, familiar faces and League of Ireland veterans in the Aviva Stadium the other night for the launch of a new book about the FAI Cup.

SIPTU has decided to demote its senior official who was a signatory to the account at the centre of the controversial HSE SKILL training fund.

A BARRISTER is to be hired by SIPTU to investigate its employment relationship with one of the signatories of a controversial account used to fund 31 foreign trips and to channel money to unions.

AFTER months of waiting, SIPTU has finally received access to an accountancy report on the account at the centre of the controversial HSE SKILL training fund.

SIPTU is to pay the €70,000 cost of an expert report on the account at the centre of the controversial HSE SKILL training fund.

SIPTU wants to publish a report within the next three weeks on the controversial SIPTU National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund into which the state and private sources placed almost €4.5 million between 2001-2010, but which the union has repeatedly insisted it knew nothing about.

CIVIL servants who travelled to New York, Boston, London and Georgia using funds from a SIPTU bank account could be asked to pay back the money to the taxpayer.

A SIPTU bank account at the centre of a number of investigations was used to fund six trips to New York by a Department of Finance official who had a key role in industrial relations issues.

Two senior trade union officials were the signatories to a bank account at the centre of a State training scheme expenses controversy, it emerged today.

A 30-year-old Waterford man, who was sexually abused by a Christian Brother, is to begin a civil case against the religious order today.