Ulster Bank AIL review: Division 1A leaders UCD had the measure of local rivals Old Belvedere for the third time in recent weeks, as a three-try salvo steered the students to a terrific 23-6 Ulster Bank League victory at Anglesea Road.

Cork show jumper Billy Twomey won the grand prix in stunning fashion at the inaugural Liverpool International Horse Show last night.

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Cork Constitution 13 St Mary’s 15: Luckily for Cork Constitution, they have retained their place in the top four of the Ulster Bank League despite a disappointing home loss to struggling St Mary’s College at Temple Hill on Saturday.

Sport has always been about onwards and upwards but the ongoing professionalisation of team sports may be to blame for a decrease in the number of young males taking part in physical activity, according to the latest Irish Sports Monitor report.

A pall was cast over the sport of eventing at the weekend with the deaths of two riders while competing.

All systems go for a re-match of the 2013 Leinster Schools Senior Cup final after holders Blackrock College were drawn against St Michael’s College in the quarter-final draw at Old Wesley RFC yesterday.

Reigning Westmeath senior football champions Mullingar Shamrocks were knocked out of this year’s championship by Tyrrellspass in a semi-final replay at Cusack Park, Mullingar on Saturday.

The TRM/Horseware Premier Series went down to the wire yesterday, with the last round deciding the title and Paddy O’Donnell proving a worthy champion.

Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) chairman Pat Wall says not enough is being done to tackle deadly “rotational falls” in eventing, but the world governing body has disputed this.

Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) chairman Pat Wall says not enough is being done to tackle deadly “rotational falls” in eventing, but the world governing body has disputed this.

Tipperary rider Shane Breen has high hopes for Zarnita, the nine-year-old mare that gave him his second win in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Hickstead, England, on Saturday.

Britain’s Phillip Miller, riding Caritiar Z, provided the only clear in the Hickstead Derby yesterday to deny Ireland its second successive win in the famed competition, as four faults left Tipperary’s Trevor Breen equal second on the one-eyed Adventure De Kannan.

The clock put a stop to show jumper Denis Lynch’s challenge in the €285,000 Longines Global Champions Tour class in Wiesbaden, Germany, on Saturday, a single time fault in the second round with the stallion All Star 5 denying him a place in the third-round decider.

Quality strikes from two deadly finishers made all the difference in this Cork SHC fourth round clash at Ballynoe on Saturday as Midleton booked their place in the quarter-finals with a hard earned victory over battling Avondhu.

Ireland show jumping team manager Robert Splaine believes Cian O’Connor’s bronze medal-winning performance in London will be a springboard for greater Olympic success.

The show jumping community at Millstreet International Horse Show was yesterday basking in the sun and Cian O’Connor’s Olympic bronze medal-winning performance.

Eddie Moloney lines out in the opening contest of the TRM/SJI Premier Series in Louth this weekend, confident he can take back-to-back titles.

St Mary’s College 23 Young Munster 19

Clontarf 12 St Mary’s College 18

Cork Constitution 21 St. Mary's College 23

St Mary’s College 31 Blackrock College 13

Lansdowne 22 St Mary's College 27, Aviva Stadium back pitch

St. Mary's College 21 Cork Constitution 8

Young Munster 11 St. Mary’s College 36

St Mary’s College 22 Clontarf 20

St. Mary's College 15 Old Belvedere 10

IT may be a long-shot, but Conor Swail feels he is justified in having one eye on the two individual Olympic places up for grabs after placing second with Lansdowne in the World Cup contest in Toronto, Canada, on Wednesday night.

Blackrock College 18 St Mary's College 19

ST Mary’s College gave their Division 1A Ulster Bank League ambitions an important boost with a Hard-earned victory over Dolphin on Saturday.

ST. MARY’S COLLEGE 15 DOLPHIN 7

Shannon 18 St Mary's College 11

THE World Cup’s Western European League begins this weekend in Oslo, and Denis Lynch is taking a different approach to last year.

GARRYOWEN 9 ST. MARY’S COLLEGE 13

IRELAND’S junior eventing team finished their dressage phase at the European Championships at Vale Sabroso, Portugal, yesterday in the silver medal position.

TIPPERARY rider David Hannigan won individual bronze in the Young Rider European Championships at Blair Castle, Scotland, yesterday and, in the process, helped the Irish team to the silver medal.

NO surprise that Ireland show jumping manager Robert Splaine regrets the loss of K Club Lady and Temple Road, who have both been sold to Ukranian gas magnate Alexander Onishchenko.

LAST weekend’s Monte Carlo Global Champions Tour (GCT) contest caused difficulties across the board and Billy Twomey feels it would be unfair to draw conclusions from the performance of any horse, including his own Tinka’s Serenade.

AN “independent” review of ShowjumpingIreland’s (SJI) insurance policy has been initiated by Horse Sport Ireland (HSI).

CAPTAIN GEOFF CURRAN and eventing high performance manager Ginny Elliot are confident the Army officer’s mount, The Jump Jet, will be fighting fit for the Alltech World Equestrian Games in Kentucky.

BILLY TWOMEY almost gave Irish fans the perfect ending yesterday to the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show but, in the end, he had to settle for third in the feature event, the €200,000 Longines Grand Prix.

AIB LEAGUE: DIVISION 1 FINAL:

PREVIEW: AIB League Division One Final

Ireland U20 wing Simon Zebo will start at full-back for Cork Constitution in the AIL Division One final against St Mary's College at Dubarry Park tomorrow.