Tyrone 0-11 Monaghan 0-13: Monaghan were crowned Ulster U21 champions for the first time since 1999 last night in another statement of the current strength of football in the county.

On the basis of the announced team at least, Monaghan have chosen to leave well enough alone by naming the same 15 that started the Ulster final for tomorrow’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Tyrone.

Three second-half goals propelled Mayo to their first victory in the Connacht U-21 football championship for three years last night.

Milford (Cork) 0-14 Granagh/Ballingarry (Limerick) 0-6

Omagh/St Enda’s 1-10 Carrickmore 0-12

Mayo manager James Horan has opted not to make any changes to his side for tomorrow’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final clash with Cork at Croke Park (4pm).

Mayo 2-16 Roscommon 0-14

Kilkenny and Galway hurling fans have snapped up all available tickets for the counties’ Leinster SHC semi-final replay today.

Roscommon 4-10 Mayo 1-08

Milford 0-6 Ardrahan 0-5

Milford (Cork) 0-14 Granagh/Ballingarry (Limerick) 0-04

Milford 5-17 Ballincollig 0-07

British & Irish Cup semi-final

Bristol 26 Leinster A 30

Munster A 24 Leinster 17

Having defied medical opinion and returned to match fitness a month earlier than expected, Paul O’Connell sets out this afternoon on a path that could see him feature for Munster in next month’s Heineken Cup quarter-final with Harlequins.

Newport Gwent Dragons 19 Leinster 26

RABODIRECT PRO12

With Leo Cullen named among the replacements, Shane Jennings has been entrusted with skippering Leinster for their RaboDirect PRO 12 clash with the Newport Gwent Dragons at Rodney Parade tomorrow evening (7.00pm).

Leinster 32 Scarlets 5

RaboDirect Pro12

British and Irish Cup

Team manager Guy Easterby has played down a historic double and warned Leinster they have won nothing yet.

With top seed secured ahead of next weekend's PRO12 play off in the RDS, there is a fresh look to the Leinster team to face the Newport Gwent Dragons in Saturday night's clash in Rodney Parade (7.30pm).

Good Friday was upgraded to a great one as far as Munster rugby fans were concerned after the province’s A team fought their way to an extra-time victory over old enemy Leinster in this epic B&I Cup semi-final last night.

Barry O’Mahony has been plucked from the relative obscurity of club rugby to fill the number seven position for Munster A in the British and Irish Cup semi-final clash with Leinster at the RDS this evening (6pm).

Brendan Macken was the star of the show at Anglesea Road yesterday with a hat-trick as Leinster A, on World Cup-winning All Black Brad Thorn’s debut, comfortably dispatched Connacht A.

Ardscoil Rís, inspired by a powerful pack, qualified for the Munster Junior Cup semi-final when coming from behind to outscore Rockwell by two tries to one in a disappointing game at Dooradoyle yesterday.

Winning has almost become a habit for Leinster in the RaboDirect Pro 12 league this season but on Saturday they were given a reminder that past form does not guarantee success.

Shane Jennings will lead a Leinster team with plenty of youth behind the scrum against the Glasgow Warriors in Saturday evening's RaboDirect PRO12 clash in Firhill (6pm).

Isa Nacewa was the key figure in Leinster’s bonus-point victory in last night’s RaboDirect Pro12 clash with an Italian side noted for causing upsets in this competition.

LEINSTER eased into the British & Irish Cup semi-finals at a canter at Donnybrook yesterday.

LEINSTER added more substance to the sporting truism that the very best teams can play well within themselves and find a way to chisel out a victory against durable opponents, like they did on Saturday night.

COLIN McENTEE’S Leinster A couldn’t add the scalp of London Welsh to those of Esher, Melrose and Llanelli at Donnybrook yesterday but a draw was enough to secure a home quarter-final in the British & Irish Cup.

Twenty-one-year-old flanker Dominic Ryan will captain Leinster ‘A’ in their interprovincial friendly against Ulster ‘A’ in Donnybrook on Friday (6pm).

MUNSTER’S new signing, Will Chambers, and scrum-half Tomas O’Leary will both see game time for the Munster A team in the Sportsground, Galway, today against Connacht (kick-off 2pm).

DOUGLAS secured their second senior camogie title in three years with victory over Milford at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday afternoon.

LEINSTER’S new prop Nathan White has admitted he is in Ireland on a wing and a prayer after leaving Waikato, the recently defeated ITM finalists.

The Leinster team to face the Scarlets in Saturday evening's RaboDirect PRO12 clash in Parc y Scarlets (6.30pm) sees three changes, all in the pack, from the side that lost to Glasgow Warriors.

THIS was more like it.

NEW ZEALAND might be far away in many senses for Darren Cave and Eoin O’Malley right now, but Ireland’s potential future centre partnership have more pressing issues back home.

Limerick 1-07 Westmeath 1-10