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Divisor One Clontarf v Olackrock. Castle Avenue, 2.30 IT HAS been an exceedingly strange Division One season so far. No Munster team in the top four, where Leinster hog the desirable seats and even Connacht, in the shape of Galwegians, are represented higher up the table than Mu

January 18, 2004 HE was Leinster's big-name signing, a star of two World Cups with Argentina and rated as one of the most exciting out-halves in the game. However, Felipe Contepomi's first competitive outing for an Irish side was not in Leinster blue but in the yellow and black

count through Leamy's score six minutes later. And the hosts were turning the tide thanks to hard graft from David Lyons and Simon Easterby but they failed to turn their pwsmsion into points as Priestland pulled a 13th-minute penalty to the right of the posts. The 21-year-old ma