Saturday morning had that bright and breezy buzz about it you get on an international weekend. Everyone up for a good game in the morning, and then head home, or to the club, justified in spending the afternoon in front of the box modestly comparing our boys to the professionals!

For Letterkenny’s brave U13 squad the famine of players continues. Injury (snow, not rugby-related!) and other competing sports stubbornly kept Saturday’s turnout to under ten. Not to worry, the sporting and enthusiastic visitors were happy to loan a few of their finest, and with a few minutes to organise positions and introduce themselves, the game got under way at 11.10.

Oh-oh! 11.12 and emerging from the first scrum, - smooth and efficient from the Rainey boys,-  Malachy the prop made their intentions clear with a convincing try.
Three more tries followed in quick succession despite valiant tackling from the Letterkenny backs. The missing forwards absence was being sorely felt. Time and again, Keelan and Oisín found themselves chasing runaway Rainey forwards into their respective corners.

Between tries there was good lineout play from both sides, and the Rainey pack were particularly effective in the scrum. By half-time the somewhat one-way traffic had resulted in a score of some ten tries to none, and it was time for a re-shuffle.