Coach Mike Ruddock praised his men for maintaining their composure and seeing off the challenge of a weak Scotland side at Dubarry Park last night to set up a Grand Slam decider away to England next Friday.

THE odd story of Garryowen’s season has been that they can’t win at home and can’t lose away.

Garryowen 23 Buccaneers 9

A SECOND-HALF comeback that embraced typical passion and skill helped Young Munster overcome arch rivals Garryowen on Saturday and set up an Ulster Bank League semi-final meeting with holders Cork Constitution.

The Ireland Under 20 Team has been named for the final game of the RBS 6 Nations Championship against England Under 20 in Dubarry Park.

THEY really don’t come any more dramatic than this!

ROCKWELL COLLEGE, one of the traditional powerhouses in the game for more than a century, and Castletroy College, who have burst on to the scene in sensational fashion over the past few years, clash in an intriguing Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final at Clanwilliam Park, Tipperary this afternoon (3pm).

VICTORS and vanquished will reflect on this Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup tie and wonder how the scoreline was so lopsided.

Insurgents fired at least 10 mortar rounds at a US base on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport today, wounding 11 soldiers, two of them seriously, and starting a fire that burned for well over an hour.

A baby said to be the first human clone has gone home with her mother, according to a cloning company linked to a sect that believes space aliens created life on Earth.

The Raelian religion is a little known movement which owes its existence to a French motor racing journalist.

A chemist connected to a group that believes life on Earth was created by extraterrestrials claimed today to have produced the world’s first human clone, a baby girl named Eve.

A scientist aiming to be the first to clone a human claims up to 700 people have applied to take part in his programme.