O’Mahony top of Ireland club class

Ireland’s Club XV retained the Dal Riada Cup, beating their Scottish counterparts 26-21 at Anglesea Road last night.

In an entertaining game played in ideal conditions, it was Ireland who opened the scoring with a penalty from Lansdowne out-half Craig Ronaldson after 10 minutes.

The game sparked into life on 19 minutes when a turnover in Irish territory was fed through multiple pairs of hands before Ronaldson was hauled down short of the Scottish 22. Three phases later a half-break by Killian Lett set the ball up for flanker and man-of the-match Barry O’Mahony to crash over. Ronaldson’s conversion struck the left-hand upright.