Presentation Brothers will be banking on powerful back division in Cork

It is not often that Presentation Brothers College, Cork go five years without a title in the SEAT Munster Schools’ Senior Cup. 

But that’s the fate which will befall them should they not defeat Ardscoil Rís in today’s semi-final at Musgrave Park. Presentation have won the title 28 times, the same as Cork rivals CBC, but their last success came in 2010.

Pres lost to Rockwell in their preliminary cup outing in January. After that, though, they came through a serious quarter-final test against Castletroy at Thomond Park. Shane Daly, Billy Pope, Conor Duggan and full-back Daragh Dennehy combined to destroy the Castletroy defence with their pace and angles of running, all the time prompted by scrum-half and captain Johnny Poland.