found on the connacht facebook page by i think a family member of Parata. not a connacht school but one of our players.

Rockwell College 25, Castletroy College 7.
Holders Rockwell College easily brushed aside the challenge of Castletroy with a deserved victory at Clanwilliam Park to set up a semi-final meeting against the winners of Thursday’s clash between Ardscoil Ris and St. Munchin’s which goes ahead at Annacotty.
Center Rory Parata was the star for Rockwell scoring twenty of his side’s points. He was the reason why they led 18-0 at half time. He opened his account on seven minutes with a penalty and then added a try and conversion six minutes later.
A break by Sonny Dwyer setup Parata for his second try on thirty minutes and he kicked a penalty on the stroke of half time.
Castletroy missed a few penalty chances in the opening half and Liam Cronin got in for a try early in the second half when Rockwell had a player in the sin bin and Conor Linehan converted.
Steve McMahon completed the scoring with a try for Rockwell and Parata added the extras.


this is from the Munster site. Rory Parata played with the Connacht under 19's last year and is heading for your Under 20's

The Roscrea/Terenure game got a good write up in the Indo:

O'Brien stars as Roscrea stun fancied Terenure

A little bit of history was created at Tallaght Stadium when the home to Shamrock Rovers hosted its first Senior Cup quarter-final, but that paled into insignificance when measured against the drama that followed. At the end of 80 absorbing minutes Cistercian College Roscrea qualified for the semi-final. It was a performance more convincing than the three-point winning margin might suggest.

Terenure, the pre-tournament favourites, looked to have stolen it deep into injury-time when Billy Dardis, for the second time in the half, appeared to have set Matthew Madigan racing free to the corner.

However, a slight hesitation on the part of the speedy winger – allied to some typically never-say-die Roscrea cover defending – sealed the first major shock of the competition to date.

That would seem the logical conclusion, yet such was the collective composure and control exerted by Roscrea right from the opening blast of Alain Rolland's whistle that there was nothing lucky about this massive win for a school still chasing its first outright success.

Irrespective of who they draw in the semi-final, this is a better, more powerfully balanced unit than the runners-up of 2011.

Put simply, this Roscrea group is more than capable of going the whole way.

The return of Sean O'Brien as skipper and No 8 has made such a difference not alone in freeing up Rory Maloney to play on the flank but also in providing a physical presence into which every other Roscrea player feeds.

Much like his illustrious namesake, this back-row forward is a raw colossus. He may not have registered on the scoreboard, but he influenced this match more than any other individual.

For Terenure it represented a hugely disappointing end to a highly promising season, but on this memorable occasion they were out-muscled and out-thought by a well prepared, highly focused force.

The league champions hit the ground running when out-half Tim Foley struck a penalty from wide on the left just five minutes in.

But the 'Nure gave a hint of their threat when, after 13 minutes, a steal at the ruck (which was to prove their primary source of quality possession throughout) saw Harrison Brewer, Niall O'Sullivan and Dardis all handle before Jack Swaine crashed over at the corner for a 5-3 lead.

Interestingly Dardis had a trial with Leicester Tigers and looks like will be heading there after school. Shows that some of the English Clubs also keep an eye on this tournament as well.

You assume/hope he'd be in the academy for next year.

well roscrea won, sean o brien was the main man for roscrea, every line out went to him, he ran from every scrum with the ball and he was the first getting the ball evrytime. looks much bigger now then about september

Any scores in the Connacht Schools so far?

roscrea are playing today, setanta at 4! not connacht school but has a few youngster who are linked to connacht. should be a good game

Any results from todays connacht senior cup games?
Garbally v Sligo Grammar and Rice College v Marist

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Yes, Moloney has been outstanding and has been playing senior since TY. Oisin Heffernan at prop looked the real deal, he played Irish schools but is likely to go to Leinster. Very impressed with Jacob Walshe from Galway, another huge lad at LH, Dwayne Corcoran from Mayo looked another useful player.

Right beside the Galway man – a certainty for the Connacht Academy next season – is the multi-skilled loose-forward Rory Moloney, who captained Ireland Schools in their Christmas fixture against the Ireland Clubs.

He's in the Leinster Schools programme and is rated highly by them as well. He captained the Leinster U18's this year. Would love to grab him for our academy though. Think he'll have to do at least a year of sub-academy with Leinster before being offered a place if we were to offer him a full academy spot who knows...

rossie wrote: anyone know the draw for the connacht schools cup and when/where they are on?

2 pools of 3 with every school guaranteed 2 games. Most games already played in the group stage
In pool 1
Marist beat Colaiste Iognaid 16-3 and Colaiste Iognaid beat Rice College 7-5
Rice College play Marist on monday in final game of this pool
Garbally, the Bish and Sligo Grammar are in pool 2
Sligo Grammar beat the Bish 24-12. dont know any other results

anyone know the draw for the connacht schools cup and when/where they are on?

Saw Sean O'Brien for first time in live action yesterday. An animal of a lad... from todays' IT on Roscrea's win in Leinster Schools Senior Cup yesterday:

Cistercian, Roscrea 40 Wesley College 0: Seán O’Brien’s Roscrea marched right through a game Wesley and into the quarter-finals at NUI Maynooth yesterday.
Connacht Under-20 captain O’Brien, a natural secondrow, has been relocated to number eight for his school where his close-quarters work is simply devastating.

Right beside the Galway man – a certainty for the Connacht Academy next season – is the multi-skilled loose-forward Rory Moloney, who captained Ireland Schools in their Christmas fixture against the Ireland Clubs.

O’Brien got the ball rolling in the second minute. Outhalf Tim Foley converted. Centre Dwayne Corcoran drew the last defender before putting wing Tim Carroll in at the corner in the 18th minute for a 12-0 lead at the break.

The heavy track was tough going for Wesley as their forwards took a pounding and kept coming back for more. Captain Andrew Walsh, hooker Jonathan Hopkins and prop Adam Garvey did all they could. The grinding process continued. Oisín Heffernan put the hammer down for the third try and O’Brien blasted over from a five-metre scrum.

Corcoran seized on a breakdown in the Wesley defence for the fifth and Richard Lavery finished rounded out the half-dozen tries, Foley landing five of them.

They had 4 Leinster and 3 Connacht from earlier in the year, plus Sean O'Brien who is Ireland u 20 and Connacht. Have great chance for Leinster SCT this year, 1st round against Wesley next Thurs.

Good to know Ormond lad thanks

connachtexile wrote: If I remember correctly and I could be wrong because of their geography they play in the Connacht schools league so a lot of their players filter in to us. I think someone told me there was 5 guys from Roscrea playing for Leinster and 2 from Roscrea playing for Connacht this year in the under 18's. Like I said I could be wrong in that so don't quote me. We did get Shane Layden from there and we had 3 Roscrea lads in the U18 team last year Ciaran Gavin, Mark Kelly and Dwayne Corcoran.

they dont play in connacht schools league. they play in the leinster league and they won the leinster senior league before christmas.
their is plenty of connacht lads in roscrea and as porterbelly and others who know more on connacht will tell you connacht u18/19 coaches and connacht academy coaches etc come down to the school in roscrea to do sessions with players in the connacht set up.

If I remember correctly and I could be wrong because of their geography they play in the Connacht schools league so a lot of their players filter in to us. I think someone told me there was 5 guys from Roscrea playing for Leinster and 2 from Roscrea playing for Connacht this year in the under 18's. Like I said I could be wrong in that so don't quote me. We did get Shane Layden from there and we had 3 Roscrea lads in the U18 team last year Ciaran Gavin, Mark Kelly and Dwayne Corcoran.