St Munchin’s College celebrated a thoroughly deserved Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final victory over Presentation Brothers College Cork with gusto at Temple Hill yesterday to clinch a place in the March 19 decider against Rockwell College.

Presentation Brothers College, Cork may have home advantage in today’s Avonmore Munster Schools’ Senior Cup semi-final against St Munchin’s College at Temple Hill (3pm), but they have learned enough over two previous traumatic encounters with Glenstal Abbey to make them feel it could be another hard day at the office.

AFTER an amazing Avonmore Milk Munster Schools’ Senior Cup tie at Cork Institute of Technology yesterday, both sides must battle again for the right to meet either St Munchin’s or Ardscoil Ris in the semi-final.

The knockout stages of the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup arrive with four attractive quarter-final matches over the next two days.

Some rugby diehards have expressed concerns about the quality of back play in Munster schools rugby over the years.

Crescent College Comprehensive hope their recent junior success can translate into rewards at senior level when they face PBC Cork in today’s Avonmore Milk Munster Senior Schools Cup quarter-final at Musgrave Park (3pm).

PRESENTATION Brothers College, Cork made a positive start to the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup campaign with a resounding triumph against Glenstal Abbey at the Cork Institute of Technology grounds yesterday.

CORK Constitution are ideally poised to bridge a 20-year gap when they take on Old Crescent in the final of the ODM Munster Senior Cup at Clifford Park on Sunday (kick-off 2pm).

All-Star defender Aidan O'Mahony has been confirmed as the Kerry player who recently failed a drugs test following the Kingdom's All-Ireland final defeat to Tyrone.

RUGBY star Frankie Sheahan last night urged Kerry’s Aidan O’Mahony to “be on the front foot from day one” in the legal bid to clear his name following revelations of a ‘failed’ drugs test.

THE All-Ireland League kicks off today with the promise of a new dawn for the top clubs struggling to survive in a changed world.

CORK CONSTITUTION’S director of rugby, Paul Derham, makes no apologies for his club’s insistence in successfully seeking a postponement of the ODM Munster Cup semi-final against Shannon.

RUNAWAY AIB League leaders Cork Constitution set one goal at the start of the season — maximise their points take in Limerick.

BUNGLING by solicitors was blamed for costing a Cork contractor up to €100,000 in legal damages after they failed to turn up for his hearing.

Cork Con 30 Ballymena 20

Buccaneers 18 Cork Constitution 12

CORK CONSTITUTION director of Rugby Paul Derham believes matches under floodlights could revitalise the AIB League.

JOINT AIB League favourites Cork Constitution and Shannon waited anxiously last night for the outcome of Munster’s Celtic League clash with Cardiff.

TOP Irish rugby clubs are likely to challenge an IRFU decision yesterday to return to provincial leagues before the implementation of a national structure from season 2005-2006.

YOUNG MUNSTER coach Tony Grant plans a two or three-year back- to-basics programme to lead the club back to the summit of Irish rugby — and help Munster and Ireland in the process.

FRANKIE SHEAHAN is still counting the financial costs — possibly as much as €100,000 — of finally proving his innocence.

FRANKIE SHEAHAN’S legal team is hopeful that the Munster and Ireland hooker will have a two-year doping ban overturned when his appeal against the sentence is heard on September 1 next.

FRANK SHEAHAN has not given up hope of an early resurrection of his rugby career — and his legal team believe he could yet be considered for a place in Ireland’s World Cup squad.

MUNSTER and Ireland hooker Frankie Sheahan faces an anxious wait in the battle to clear his name of a doping charge, after an independent Judicial Tribunal decided to postpone making a decision on the case until later in the week.