Leinster Schools U18s savour win in 100th clash with Munster

LEINSTER’S U18 schools side left Cork with a victory over Munster to their names last night, just as their predecessors did 111 years ago.

It was on March 18, 1899 that the schoolboys of Leinster came south and won the first interprovincial encounter with Munster, winning 6-3 at Turners Cross. Meeting for the 100th time at this level and just a few hundred yards down the road from the original clash, the class of 2010 scored their 59th victory in the series with a 20-10 defeat of the southern province at Musgrave Park.

Munster, looking for its 32nd win since the rivalry began, was consigned to its third interprovincial defeat of the campaign having also gone down to Ulster and Connacht, but Leinster secured the interprovincial title in style.