Dream come true for Belvo

AN emotional and historic day at Donnybrook as Old Belvedere toppled champions Cork Constitution to claim the top prize in Irish club for the first time yesterday.

With the win Phil Werahiko’s side became the first Leinster winners since St. Mary’s College in 2000 and realised their ambition of securing the game’s biggest accolade.

Director of Rugby Werahiko admitted: “We’re relieved. We knew from the first-half when we spent a lot of time scrambling that we would have to push on and run it a lot more. We knew we had to get our hands on the ball and concentrate on the basics. We got a bit more ball to run with and we felt we had as many good attacking players as Con. Happily we managed to finish off enough chances to get the result.”