Glenstal Abbey 21  Ardscoil Rís 20 Munster Schools Senior Cup, Thomond Park: Amid tremendous excitement and high drama at Thomond Park yesterday, Glenstal Abbey bridged a 47-year gap when they just survived a magnificent rally by Ardscoil Rís to qualify to meet PBC in the final of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup on St Patrick’s Day.

Bandon Grammar School produced a sensational comeback to win a pulsating Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup tie at Bandon RFC.

One of the country’s most exclusive boys schools, Glenstal Abbey in Limerick, last year recorded a €4m income as the number of students attending increased again.

When Cara O’Sullivan was diagnosed with nodes on her vocal cords, she knew that the slightest slip during the operation would end her singing career, writes Jo Kerrigan

It is rutting season for deer this month. Hillwalkers and strollers in Glendalough Valley have been struck by the piercing sound of sika stags making a shrill triple-whistle sound as they collect their hinds (females) and hold them in a harem while they maintain dominance among their male counterparts during rutting season. A pregnant hind will give birth next June, 33 weeks after ‘unity-day’ in October!

Children’s creativity and imagination are being stifled by an education system that is enslaved to producing people for economic growth, according to the abbot of Glenstal Abbey.

Munster Schools Senior Cup: Glenstal 6 Crescent 3

A judge, garda commissioner and abbot can surprise you in private, says Catherine Shanahan

The Yeats festival is much more than an attempt to cash in on the artistic brothers’ association with the area, writes Alan O’Riordan.

The Yeats festival is much more than an attempt to cash in on the artistic brothers’ association with the area, writes Alan O’Riordan.

William Ryan has written a third crime novel featuring Captain Alexei Korolev and he tells Declan Burke why the series is set in Russia

GLENSTAL ABBEY WALK, CO LIMERICK

Perhaps St Benedict and a lovely English lady helped to save Valentia Radio.

Christian Brothers College Cork had little difficulty in overcoming St Munchin’s College in yesterday’s Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Junior Cup quarter-final at Musgrave Park.

A MONK at Glenstal Abbey boarding school in Limerick has been removed from contact with students following an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor in England.

ONE of Ireland’s greatest musical heroes, the late composer Seán Ó Riada, is to be commemorated with a festival in his adopted home of Cúil Aodha.

HE mixed in circles with the rich and the famous but Lord Thady Dunraven was far from being a “Lord of the Manor” in his beloved Adare.

SCHOOLS rugby stereotypes? Alongside a colourful terrace culture and visible agony and ecstasy at the final whistle, you’ll find cagey, no-risk, win-at-all-costs rugby.

THE record books of the Avonmore Munster Schools Junior Cup were weighted heavily against Glenstal Abbey at Temple Hill yesterday, but the Murroe, Co Limerick school fashioned a magnificent first ever victory over cup specialists Christian Brothers College Cork.

A YOUNG man with a development contract was hailed for setting the scene for Munster’s successful assault on the Wallabies. Ian Nagle’s first-half lineout display was right out of the Paul O’Connell school of second-row forward play and helped spearhead his side to an amazingly easy victory over the tourists.

Jennifer Sleeman’s call for women to boycott Catholic Masses tomorrow week has certainly caught the imagination of many people. She has advocated the boycott as a means of protesting against the male dominance of the Church and the treatment of women as distinctly second-class members.

THE pensioner who has called for a one-day boycott of Sunday Mass in protest at the Church’s attitude to women has said she has been receiving support for her stance over the past 24 hours.

The Holy Thief

CHRISTIAN Brothers College found the formula for victory in the second half of this hotly disputed Avonmore Munster Schools Junior Cup tie at Clanwilliam yesterday.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese did what she does so masterfully again yesterday on a visit to the all-boy Benedictine boarding school, Glenstal Abbey in Co Limerick.

THOUSANDS of homes and farms in Co Limerick, which had been on boil water warnings, have a safe, secure supply following the completion of remedial works.

DATING back to the mid-1900s, and in need of some updating, Glenstal has location, aspect and ‘a bit off the side’ in its favour.

THE general election revealed a surprising historical connection with the War of Independence.

A teenage girl has been killed in a car crash in Limerick this morning.

IN recent years the maintenance and operation of much of the vital infrastructure of the nation has been transferred from direct public administration to semi-state companies so that the noble ethos of public service might be cross-pollinated with the vitality and zeal of the market place.

Brother Anthony believes his defence of Glenstal Abbey’s woodlands brings him closer to God, writes Jimmy Woulfe.