Which team knocked holders Leicester City out of the FA Cup?
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Middlesbrough
Stoke City
Nottingham Forest
Bournemouth
Leona Maguire became the first Irish winner on the LPGA Tour, but from what county does she hail?
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Louth
Monaghan
Longford
Cavan
How many cards in total (red, yellow and black) were shown by referee Colum Cunning during the Allianz Hurling League fixture between Dublin and Waterford?
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12
14
16
18
The selection of Francois Cros for tomorrow's game against Ireland is one of two changes to the France team that defeated Italy. Can you name the other player who has been drafted into Fabien Galthié's starting XV?
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Yoram Moefana
Gabin Villière
Grégory Alldritt
Anthony Jelonch
Do you know which Ireland international was shown a red card during a Women's Super League clash with Manchester United?
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Louise Quinn
Katie McCabe
Megan Connolly
Jamie Finn
Who became the first Irish athlete to compete at three Winter Olympics?
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Elsa Desmond
Jack Gower
Seamus O'Connor
Thomas Maloney Westgård
Two late scores from David Clifford against DCU sealed UL's place in the Sigerson Cup final. In what year did they last reach the decider?
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1993
1995
1997
1999
Dave Kearney makes his first start of the season tonight for Leinster, but which team will provide the opposition?
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Dragons
Glasgow Warriors
Edinburgh
Ospreys
A fractured wrist will rule which Irish star out for the remainder of the AFLW season?
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Aisling McCarthy
Áine Tighe
Ailish Considine
Aishling Sheridan
Arsenal youngster Jordan McEneff has signed a loan deal with which LOI club?
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Dundalk
St Patrick's Athletic
Shelbourne
Bohemians
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I love reading stories like this. For all the fantastic players that have come through the schools system, the majority started off life in the club system. It’s a testament to the players, coaches, parents, committees who put in the hard work in keeping these clubs going
Great story. There are large areas of the country that are open to this type of development.
@kieran horgan: Completely agree. When youngsters playing in less traditional areas see those a few years ahead of them feature in provincial and national squads, it will hopefully boost rugby in those areas. Look at Munster and West Cork, in the last number of years alone there’s been the 2 Coombes, 2 Wycherleys, Crowley, Hodnett, Hurley. Plenty of untapped areas to be explored
@Niall Boyle: Farmer strength is a term often used. You know what it means when you’ve played against it be it in Gaelic or Rugby. It would be fertile ground for rugby players if the seeds are planted particularly forwards. It’s also part of what makes NZ rugby
@Michael Corkery: farmer strength is something that applies only in the amatuer arena. Kids from farming backgrounds in NZ( also SA and Aus) who are decent at rugby with a view to the Pro’s, generally head off to boarding school for secondary, unless they’re commutable distance to bigger towns/cities. They develop physically using modern development practices, not shifting bales by hand…
@Sea Point: True, the bales of hay and tractor tyres have been replaced by dumb bells and Creatine.
@Sea Point: rubbish, certain people have natural strength which has been acquired during generations and their youth as they needed to have it for their livelihood. Of course, that alone is a base strength that is built on when they get into a more professional setup be it a private school or academy.
@Niall Boyle: and Mike Ross before them
Great to see, jj returning and possibly 2 good lads getting into the academy will be great for munster and the kingdom.
@Treaty Jim: would love to see Jack Daly get a run without injury disruption also
@Niall Boyle: totally agree.
@Niall Boyle: Doesn’t look great for Jack, ‘last chance saloon’ maybe.
The Blackrock catchment area is pretty large…
Kudos to their scouts, but I thought that there was a Leinster School’s rule about how long a player had to be in a school before playing for their SCT?
@Phil O’ Meara: Kerry is part of cork too. These powerful schools always find a way around these “rules”
@Phil O’ Meara: Would be interesting to know what discussions took place that resulted in O’Sullivan ending up at Blackrock, rather than another Leinster school or a Cork or Limerick school. However I think the rule to which you refer (and stopped Dylan McNeice playing for St Michael’s this year) is to stop Leinster schools poaching from each other. The previous school can give permission for their former pupil to play for his new one. Doesn’t apply in this case where it seems that everyone’s a winner
@Kevin Ryan: Everyone bar Terenure!
Jaysus Whitehouse is a painful ref