Nice to see @dodgy-keeper get a mention at the death.
BLACKROCK COLLEGE 16
ST. MICHAELâS COLLEGE 6
A strong Blackrock College means a strong Leinster Schools Cup. To tradition. 
A black day for balbec, his beloved Gonzaga, the Jesuits and the Roman Catholic Church as a whole - the young men in green were beaten 47-3 by the Protestant heretics of St. Andrews College.
Haha
They will rot in hell for it.
It was something of an anti-climactic Holy Ghost derby. Hard to see anything other than the denizens of Willow Park capturing title number 68 come 17 March. When they won it out last year, all the talk was that this was the more plausible year for this Rock team to come to maturity. Basically all thatâs left is an assortment of boggers and some crowd St Andrewâs who havenât been this far in the tournament since 1922. Complacency may be their only enemy now, something that the Holy Ghost Fathers will no doubt have drummed out of them. Nick Timoney the captain, looks like a serious prospect. The future of Leinster and Irish rugby.
Whatâs your alma mater manuel?
Its an 11th final meeting of Blackrock College and Clongowes Wood on Sunday. Its all but impossible to see anything other than the same outcome as in the previous 10.
Pleasing to see that the traditional blue bloods of the schools game, Blackrock College and Methodist College, Belfast, emerged victorious in the Leinster and Ulster Schools Senior Cup finals respectively.
Itâs a 68th title for the famed Williamstown academy while Methody move onto 35 titles in the roll of honour.
All is right with the world again.
The bin men and dockers of Crescent College Comprehensive crowned the high kings of schools rugby football in Munster after today defeating those Ard Scoil Ris lads not good enough to make their Harty Cup winning hurling team.
I presume @Sidney[/USER] and [USER=377]@Manuel Zelaya will be heading along to the charity fundraiser between the Jesuits and the Holy Ghosts on Thursday?
A moving and fitting obituary in the Paper of Record today to Ian Burns, the star of the 1973 High School triumph.
Ian Burns[/URL], who has died aged 58, was a schoolboy sports star who went on to achieve at club, provincial and international level, in [URL=âhttp://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?q=rugby&article=trueâ]rugby[/URL] and in [URL=âhttp://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?q=cricket&article=trueâ]cricket, and to have a notable career in business.
As a pupil at The High School[/URL], Burns developed an outstanding on-field rugby partnership with scrum-half [URL=âhttp://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=John%20Robbie&article=trueâ]John Robbie[/URL] which reached its zenith when the school won the Leinster [URL=âhttp://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?q=Schools%20Senior%20Cup&article=trueâ]Schools Senior Cup in 1973, the first and only time in the schoolâs history.
âIan was an outstanding sportsman,â recalled team captain Don Lewis this week following Burnsâs sudden death while playing golf in Connemara. âHe and Johnnie Robbie â they were the stars, the rest of us were just the chorus.â
According to Lewis, the seasonâs semi-final against a star-studded St Maryâs was in many respects the match that clinched the season for The High School. âThe Maryâs team on the day included Tony Ward at No 10, a future Irish international, Rodney OâDonnell at fullback and Declan Fanning at No 8, a future captain of Leinster. But Burns gave a master class in tactical kicking in a match we only won by a point, 10-9.â
Conversion During the final against Belvedere, the Burns-Robbie partnership was again to the fore, with fly-half Burns running in two tries and two drop goals to win 19-7. Robbie kicked a conversion and two penalties.
While Robbie secured nine caps for Ireland and a tour with the Lions in South Africa (where he later settled), Burns earned just one cap for his country â as a replacement during Irelandâs 24-9 drubbing by England at Twickenham in 1980.
At club and provincial level, however, he shone, playing for Leinster in numerous inter-provincial matches in the 1970s and 1980s and for Wanderers where he was captain and later president. He also coached the international sevens team.
While better known for his rugby career, Burns was arguably a more accomplished cricketer.
He played 26 senior seasons with the YMCA, scoring an impressive 5,486 runs, during which he hit three centuries and 27 fifties. In 287 matches, he also took five wickets in an innings on 14 occasions. In no small measure due to Burnsâs contribution, the Sandymount club, which he captained in 1987, 1990 and 1994, carried off the Leinster Senior Cup seven times during his tenure and won the League three times.
Personality trait A key personality trait, according to Lewis, was Burnsâs combination of determination and confidence. âHe was a little bit cheeky; there was a glint in his eye that he could do it. He had that self-belief.â
The same qualities were evident in his business life.
After High School, Burns went to work for Billy Gorman, to whom he became close and whom considered a soul mate. He spent 26 years with Gorman AGN financial consultants, overseeing its merger in 2004 with RMS Robson Rhodes. Burns excelled in IT, marketing and long-term strategic planning â qualities that got him noticed by other companies.
In 2004, he joined Merlyn Showering of Kilkenny. In 2007 joined the board of Mothercare Ireland, to which he had been an adviser since 1992.
This week, Michael Hoyne of Merlyn praised Burnsâs foresight. âHe was the one that could stand back from the business and evaluate a situation,â said Hoyne. âHe was always thinking âwhat should the business be like in three years time?â â
In 2008, his career took a turn when he launched Airone, which aimed to be a low-cost airline in the Caribbean with investors who included Digicel vice-president Leslie Buckley, former rugby international Brendan Mullin of Quantum Investment Capital and NCB, and former director of operations at Guinness Peat Aviation Peter Delaney. But the project foundered when the Jamaican government refused a licence. Investors were reimbursed.
Decamped Burns decamped his idea to Barbados where in May 2011 with his son Robbie, he began operating REDjet, a low-cost carrier. The airline was a hit with passengers but supporters complained of strangling official bureaucracy and eventually financial difficulties arose. In June 2012 the airline closed.
âThe man came to Barbados. He tried to set up a regional airline,â said Barbadan investor Ralph Williams. âHe was frustrated non-stop by technocrats, here and in the other islands,â added Williams, who said he lost millions in the venture.
Burns was raised with a strong religious faith, a fact that was evident at his funeral this week in a packed Zion Road, Rathgar, Church of Ireland church. Both his rector, the Rev Arthur Young of Kill Oâthe Grange, and Bishop Ferran Glenfield, a family friend, noted that Burns lived his faith in Christ.
Ian Burns married Jackie Burgess. They had three children, Robbie, Peter and Nicki. They survive him as does his mother, Ruth, and brother John.
johnie Robbie is a terrible reflection of the ethics of that school, emigrating to apartheid south Africa
3 kids brought in 3 ambulances from a school boy rugby game in a Dublin yesterday. All neck injuries.
Front Row issues?
Fucking pauls bringing screwdrivers into scrums again no doubt
Was in the independent. Match finished which Suggests they were precautionary but scary for all involved.
I see my alma mater did its bit to stamp out rugby in north wexford by walloping gorey community school 75-0