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[14/01/09]Junior XV Win Mungret Shield - 4 in a row

Mungret Shield (U15) Final
Played in Glenstal, Wednesday 13th January 2008
Glenstal Abbey School 25 - St Clements, Limerick 5
Referee: Mike Wrenn MAR
 
Despite playing with the wind advantage Glenstal went into the break with the score 3-0 after outhalf Luke Bradley kicked a penalty on the stroke of half-time.
 
In the second half captain and No 8, Ian McCarthy scored a brace of tries in as many minutes to extend the lead to 13-0 on 40 minutes. Centre Rob Shanahan added a third try on 48 mins. Luke Bradley was unsuccessful with all conversion attempts.
 
St Clements scrum-half Darragh Philips put points on the board for the Limerick City side with a well deserved try on 53 minutes.
 
Glenstal finished off with a try close to the posts in the final play by flanker Kevin Lynch, which was converted by Bradley. The final score 25-5 saw Glenstal win The Mungret Shield for the third year in a row. St Clements last lifted this trophy in 1984, when they won it 3 times in 4 years.
 
Glenstal will now take the 8th Quarter-Final place in the Avonmore Munster Schools Junior Cup - playing Rockwell in Clanwilliam next Wednesday. St Clements will meet Midleton College in the Quarter-Finals of the Giles Shield.

[6/12/08]Senior XV Win the Limerick City U18 Cup

For the first time in the history of the School the Seniors beat St. Munchins 18-6 to win the Limerick City Cup which was inaugurated in 1901 and was won by a certain Landsdowne!!!

Out Half Mike O’Flynn opened the score for Glenstal in the first half with a well taken drop goal. He then added to the score with a penalty before half time. In the second half, Brian Costigan scored a try after a well-worked maul in which the forwards physically knocked St. Munchins over their own line, something of a rarity in Munster schools rugby and all the more pleasing.

Shane Cosgrove scored a try under the posts at the end of the game following a clever intercept which Mike O’Flynn subsequently converted. This was a well-deserved win for the Senior team and Captain Duncan Casey and his players can be justly proud of this magnificent and historic performance.

Celebrations were tempered somewhat with the serious injury to Brian Costigan, who many agree is the finest flanker ever to put on a Glenstal jersey. Brian was subsequently named Man-of-the-Match. Brian dislocated his ankle and broke a bone in his leg in a most unfortunate accident ten minutes from the end of the game. The Glenstal team were all the more determined that they would not be beaten despite such a significant loss and they dedicated the Cup Final win to Brian.

Brian subsequently had two pins and a plate put into his ankle. We wish him a speedy recovery and there is hope that he might make it back for the latter stages of the Cup. Knowing Brian’s steely determination, anything is possible.

GOAL Jersey Day 2008