Polish leaders are holding a welcome ceremony for the biggest deployment of US troops to Europe in decades.

St Mary’s College 16 Cork Constitution 20: Cork Constitution survived a late onslaught from St Mary’s College to claim a narrow win in Division 1A of the Ulster Bank League at Templeville Road on Saturday.

Bandon, Cork Constitution, Richmond, and Young Munster advanced to the Bank of Ireland Munster Junior Cup semi-finals after a busy weekend of action.

Roscommon continued their impressive National League campaign as they were nine-point winners over bottom side Down in Pearse Park, Longford.

France 34 Ireland 13: First-half tries from Peter Claffey and James Ryan weren’t enough to secure Ireland’s first win in five Six Nations outings, as the French were too good at Narbonne.

Sometimes, sports stars are never more in peril than when they’ve stepped away from the action. From the gruesome to the outlandish, brace yourself for some of the more unusual injuries of the sporting year

Down 1-17, Galway 1-16: Kevin Walsh was left regretting Galway’s wastefulness as Down came with a late charge to snatch a valuable win which moved them to the top of Div 2 in the Allianz Football League.

Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final

Munster Schools Senior Cup: Castletroy 15 PBC 22

University College Cork has, for the second year in-a-row, come second in the world in the Universitas Indonesia Greenmetric World University Ranking as well as placing second in the ‘Urban’ campus setting category.

Euro 2016 Group D qualifier

Down 0-11 Kildare 1-18

The tackle is a skill by which one or more players may dispossess an opponent or frustrate his objective within the rules of fair play. A tackle is aimed at the ball, not the player. A tackler may use his body to confront the opponent but deliberate bodily contact such as punching, slapping, arm holding, pushing, tripping, jersey pulling or a full frontal charge is forbidden.

Down’s Mark Poland has called on the GAA to consult with the players if they want to continue playing intercounty matches on Friday nights.

Monaghan secured the result of the day in Allianz Football League Division 2 by hammering Meath by 0-20 to 0-8.

Down 0-09 Donegal 0-12

The sun was shining, the pitch was in pristine shape, and conditions were perfect for Championship football — yet an unmistakable air of melancholy hung around Celtic Park on Sunday.

Mark Poland believes no other county would have coped with the amount of player unavailability as well as Down.

Derry 1-15 Down 2-17

Derry 1-15 Down 2-17

Dublin 1-15 Down 0-9

Kerry 0-11 Down 1-5

Ulster 1-14 Munster 1-13

Officers stormed an underground bunker in the US where a five-year-old boy had been held hostage for nearly a week, rescuing him and leaving his kidnapper dead.

A grieving community is preparing to bury a driver murdered trying to protect children on his bus, as the police stand-off with an Alabama man accused of the killing and holding a five-year-old boy hostage continued.

A gunman holding a five-year-old boy hostage in a bunker continued to keep police at bay in a siege that began when he killed a school bus driver and dragged the child away.

Ulster 2-12 Donegal 1-12

Down 1-13 Tipperary 0-11

Fermanagh 1-8 Down 2-10

Armagh 1-14 Down 0-16

Down 0-15 Dublin 1-10

PBC booked their place in the semi-final of the Avonmore Milk Munster Schools’ Junior Cup with an excellent performance at Musgrave Park.

The resurrected interprovincial series has lost its previous lustre but Ulster players’ hunger to win any game, irrespective of the grade, remains undiminished as they ripped a mediocre Connacht to shreds in yesterday’s one-sided semi-final at Markievicz Park.

Connacht 0-13 Ulster 3-16

Allianz Football League Division 1: Cork 4-11 Down 0-10

Down 1-10 Donegal 1-9

UCC has become the first third-level institution worldwide to be recommended for ISO 50001, the international standard for efficient energy management.

PLANNING permission is being sought by University College Cork (UCC) for a new €11 million Maritime Research and Testing Centre which will ultimately be home to up to 150 research scientists.

Dublin 2-10 Down 0-13

A NASTY mist had descended on Páirc Esler in Newry on Saturday night by the time the managers came back out to chew over this one.

Down 0-12 Armagh 0-11

1. Terrific composure and vision in possession