Ulster wear down brave Munster boys

Ulster Schools 10 Munster Schools 0

The holders of the Interprovincial title battled manfully in difficult circumstances, but Ulster deservedly grabbed an injury time try to give them a winning margin that better reflected their superiority.

Despite the territorial advantage, Ulster had to rely on a penalty goal 27 minutes into the second half from James Shiel to push them into the lead and then had to wait until the dying seconds for Mark McCrea to go in for a try through an exhausted defence and give Shiels an easy conversion attempt.

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