SHANNON may have turned the tables with a resounding 55-22 victory over UCD in Limerick last season, but they will be conscious that the students have a habit of reserving their best when playing at home and, indeed, won that encounter two years ago 31-29.

IRELAND prop Marcus Horan has given the thumbs up to the All Ireland League as the ideal mechanism for developing international players of the future.

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