THERE has been a dramatic rise in the number of young people abusing a cocktail of alcohol, cocaine and cannabis.

Buccaneers, despite having nothing other than pride to play for, had no intention of making it easy for Cork Con at Ericsson Park and in the end Ronan O¹Gara and his men had to dig deep to set up a home semi-final date with Garryowen in two weeks.

Buccaneers may have enjoyed territorial supremacy for most of their joust with UCD but they lacked the killer punch and paid dearly as a consequence when visiting scrumhalf Brian O’Riordan scored two opportunist tries in a six minutes spell midway through the second half.

Buccaneers 18 Galwegians 9

Buccaneers chalked up their third win on the trot since new coach Simon Allnutt took over with a five try rout of Belfast Harlequins at Ericcson Park.