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Buccaneers men’s touch rugby team travelled to Energia Park in Donnybrook recently for games two and three in the 2023 ITA Men’s Division 1 League.

Three Connacht Rugby youngsters are celebrating Ireland's incredible success in winning the U20 Six Nations Championship at the weekend.

Buccaneers men's touch rugby team had their first outing of the season with a recent friendly against Old Wesley Touch in Energia Park, Donnybrook.

Pete Wilkins, currently head coach, will be given overall responsibility for Connacht's professional team from next season.

Connacht is running out of games to seal a top eight play-off spot, thus this weekend’s fixture against Zebre becomes all the more crucial in achieving their seasonal ambitions.

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Connacht, some eight places behind the Sharks need to produce a big performance in Saturday's URC clash at the Sportsground ((5.15pm).

It has to be the year of the Shark, that’s John ‘Shark’ Hanlon from County Carlow. He bought a horse called Hewick. He didn’t pay dearly for it (not even a thousand euro) and then won the Galway Plate last summer. He added another win at Sandown, and between the two he pocketed half a million euro. Not bad for a year’s work. But just last October he won the American Grand National at Fair Hills in New Jersey with a $160,000 dollar first prize. Now he is 33/1 to take the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. D’ya think, maybe.

Our Lady’s Boys’ Club RFC farewells perhaps its most-enduring stalwart at the end of November when Connacht Rugby’s side pitch makes way for stadium developments and futureproofing.