There’s no better team than Leinster to take advantage and when Connacht arrived at the RDS with a less than full-strength team, you knew they were in danger of a spanking.

Ulster 22 Connacht 20 After their recent record, any win and in any fashion was welcomed by Ulster on Friday night as they provided Head Coach Dan ...

Dunloy 1-14; St Thomas’ 0-13 This was no fluke, in fact if anything, the Dunloy men’s approach work deserved a wider margin of victory over Galway’...

Ulster’s misery goes on but at last there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel. However at one stage it looked like the Northern province w...

Glen (Derry) 1-12; Kilcoo (Down) 1-6 The beauty of Ulster football is that there is no such thing as a racing certainty. Even though reigning provi...

With respect to their provincial opponents, the 2022 club championship for Ballygunner was not so much about retaining their Munster title as meeting Ballyhale Shamrocks in the All-Ireland semi-final on Sunday week to prove their late, late final win in February was no fluke.

Kilcoo 3-14 Enniskillen Gaels 1-9 As if we didn’t know it already, Kilcoo gave us further evidence on Saturday that they would be formidable oppone...

Kilcoo 2-14; Ballybay 1-7 There are heavyweight contenders… and then there are teams like Kilcoo. Monaghan side Ballybay must have had notions afte...

Ireland 19; South Africa 16 We’ve been here before – in 2018 to be precise against the All Blacks – only to flatter to deceive. This time around th...

East Kerry 1-16 Mid Kerry 0-10 David Clifford spent last year learning to accept defeat at every turn; this time round titles and awards are tumbli...

Connacht 22; Ospreys 19 Bravo Connacht! And they can thank Jack Carty's second-half drop-goal for giving them the spoils in Swansea at the weekend....

Leinster 27; Munster 13 Have no doubt Leinster deserved to win and were the better side, but hats off to an almost Munster academy group for puttin...