Clontarf broke northern hearts beating Lisburn and Bready in back-to-back matches to win the Under-17 girls All-Ireland Cup at Magheramason.

Champions Heriot’s moved within touching distance of another Eastern Premier title with a comfortable win over Edinburgh South at Goldenacre.

The Royal Challengers Belfast’s Royal Premier League Cricket tournament (RPL) Season 4 is set to kick off with excitement and competitive spirit as eight teams have been officially confirmed for this year’s edition. 

Woodvale stunned four-times winners Donemana to claim their first Ulster Plate with a convincing six-wicket win at The Holm.

The final game of Sunday’s T20 Cup round pitted leaders Voorburg against Punjab-Ghausia, Punjab moving to the top of the table by virtue of a four-wicket victory.

Waringstown Women completed back-to-back doubles with a 30-run win over title challengers Holywood in what was a de-facto Premiership decider at Seapark.

Jordan Hollard's 42-ball century helped Balbriggan to a 12-run win over Clontarf in the Irish Senior Cup final at Bready.

Norway beat Sweden and Hungary to secure a tri-series in Oslo.

A 2-0 series sweep for the home side against their more experienced opponents.

Fox Lodge close in on the Championship title, while the race for second spot hots up as Ballyspallen and St Johnston win.

Cameron Melly upstaged Paul Stirling to give Brigade pole position in the NW Premiership title race as they chased 282 to win by four wickets at The Holm.

Defending champions Voorburg moved to the top of the table by virtue of two victories on a Saturday which saw the surprises of the opening day were largely wiped from the slate.

It was just too early for Instonians to claim the title of NCU Premier League champions after their victory against Muckamore but it will take something remarkable next weekend to prevent Nikolai Smith from lifting the trophy for the second time in three years.

Fox Lodge won the NW Women's Senior Cup for the seventh time in eight years with a comfortable 60-run win over rivals Bready at Eglinton.

Lisburn came back from the dead to beat Templepatrick with a last-ball boundary to win the NCU Under-17 Cup at Templepatrick.

IRELAND U15s were denied a clean sweep at the Barnard Castle Festival after winning their first four matches but losing the fifth to The Netherlands by 26 runs in the north-east of England.

SCOTLAND U17s claimed the Celtic Cup as Ireland were comprehensively beaten by seven wickets in the deciding T20 of a hard-fought five-match series at Stormont in Belfast.

There are two familiar foes going head-to-head in the Women’s Cup final at Eglinton on Friday (3pm) with holders Fox Lodge meeting newly crowned Premiership champions Bready.

A first ever meeting between Guernsey and Papua New Guinea ends in defeat for the home side.

Irish international Curtis Campher has signed a short-term deal with Essex.

The last time, before this season, that Delany captained a team was the Clontarf Under 13s and, back in 2011, he led them to the final of All-Ireland U13 Cup against their hosts.

Callum Armstrong took his second five-wicket haul of the week as Ireland Under15's made it four straight wins at the Barnard Castle Festival as they beat MACC Academy by eight wickets

Evan Gawley was the NCU hero as he rescued his side from a precarious 88 for 7 to post a match winning 239 against the NW at Foyle.

Gethin Kelleher was the Ireland hero with the Railway Union all-rounder showing nerves of steel to score the seven runs required from the last three balls to secure a four-wicket win for Ireland U17s.

Glendermott have withdrawn their youth side from the All-Ireland U-17 Finals day that was due to be held in Railway Union next week.

Callum Armstrong was once again the star of the show as Ireland Under 15s made it three wins on the bounce with a five-wicket win against Cleveland Schools at the Barnard Festival.

Paul Stirling is poised to make his debut for Donemana in their Premiership top of the table clash with Brigade on Saturday at The Holm.

The Northern Knights kept alive their title chances with a three-wicket win in a high scoring encounter at Bready.

Munster Reds leapfrogged Leinster Lightning to go top of the 50-overs Interpro Cup table with a 27-run win at the Mardyke.

Merrion bounced back from the disappointment of losing the U13 All-Ireland Final to clinch the All-Ireland U15 decider with an eight-wicket win against Holywood at Seapark.

Callum Armstrong took five wickets as Ireland Under 15s beat Ace Academy by five wickets in the second match of their Barnard Castle Festival.

The Emerging Knights recovered from a poor start to beat the Emerging Warriors by 64 runs at The Lawn.

The Under 13 Festival got underway in the North West with the host's A-team just losing out by 13 runs against tournament favourites NCU, while Leinster had a convincing win over NW B.

The second of the six All-Ireland finals to be played this month saw Bonds Glen create a bit of history as they won an All-Ireland trophy for the first time beating Merrion in a tense thriller at Castle Avenue.

Orla Prendergast collected the Player-of-the-Series award at Clontarf yesterday but her second successive half-century wasn’t enough to maintain Ireland’s nine-match winning streak in T20s as they lost to Pakistan by eight wickets.

Donemana steamrollered a young Bready side to return to the top of the Premiership with an emphatic 10-wicket win.

There were victories in Section One for Carrickfergus, Lurgan, Bangor, Armagh and Laurelvale.

Ireland failed to make it 10 wins in a row as Pakistan ended the T20I series at Clontarf on a high with an eight wickets victory. 

Jane Maguire strode to the wicket at Clontarf last night needing to hit a four from the final ball to beat Pakistan and went two better with a stunning six back over the bowler’s head to secure a thrilling four-wicket win for Ireland.

After being behind for three-quarters of the game, Ireland came with a stunning late surge to beat Pakistan and take the three-match series 2-0 yesterday.

Matthew Hollard took six wickets as The Hills make just 19. Wins too in the Championship for Cork and North County.

Wins for Phoenix, Clontarf and Merrion tightens up the Premiership race.

Catches win matches, the old clichés are best. Not so sure about this one though, there are ten  ways to be dismissed, caught is just one of them. What might be true or truer is that dropped catches lose matches.  

Ava Canning produced a superb spell of 1-9 from four overs to set Ireland on the way to an 11-run victory over Pakistan at Clontarf and a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three T20 international series.

IRELAND’S women brought a little of the spirit of the Oval to Clontarf last night, holding their nerve to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series with Pakistan.

Blake MacDonald's century and Harry Tector's three vital wickets were the catalyst for Pembroke's 81-run win over Clontarf in the Leinster Senior Cup final.

Aisling Lawlor scores 135 not out as Merrion beat Clontarf in high quality Under 15 Leinster Girls final at Castle Avenue.

Zara Craig was back in the North West to lead Leinster Women to victory over her former region and with it the inaugural Future Series title at Ballyspallen.

Clontarf and Pembroke meet in Saturday's Leinster Senior Cup final. Ian Callender looks ahead to the clash with captains David Delany and Paul Lawson.

Owen McMillan was in the runs yet again as the NCU took an unassailable 3-0 lead against Leinster in the Under-13 interprovincial series at Shaw's Bridge.

Scotand's 'Twa W's' starred as they beat Ireland by 66 runs in the first match of fhe Over 40's Triple Crown at Stirling,

There were wins for the Emerging Knights and Leinster Bolts on the final day of the Future Series, with the NCU claiming the title.

Internal communication reveals the aftermath faced by staff at Cricket Ireland HQ as a new budget kicks into gear in the aftermath of the ETPL's postponement.

NCU Under 13's took a two-nil lead to ensure at least a share of the spoils with their Leinster counterparts.

A century stand between Owen McMillan and Callum Lowe, plus a six-wicket haul for Hridhaan Salian were the highlights as the NCU Under 13's won the opening match of their annual four-game Challenge Series at Ring Commons on Monday.

Cameron Melly's century ensured the Emerging Warriors completed a 10-wicket win over Munster Heat at Eglinton.

Ireland Over 40’s will be aiming to go one step further and claim the Triple Crown title in Scotland next week, after finishing second in the Quadrangular tournament last year.

Eglinton's Jenni Jackson took five wickets as Warriors Women started their Future series campaign with a six-wicket win over the Emerging Knights.

Blake McDonald made a record unbeaten 263 as Pembroke piled on the agony and the runs against North County at Balrothery, while David Delany took seven wickets as Clontarf ousted Railway Union.

The disparity in the experience and quality of the squads resulted in a total mismatch that was over well before the scheduled close despite only 10 overs on the first day.

PJ Moor has played his last innings. The Munster Reds batter will return home on Sunday to work in the family business in Zimbabwe with his cricket career at an end.

Who would be a bowler? As the chasm between bat and ball grows ever wider, former Irish international Deryck Vincent asks for equality in the modern game.

The NCU completed a convincing 154-run win against Leinster in a game that was remarkable because it had two hat-tricks.

Typhoons broke their duck in the SS20 by winning the final match of the competition, beating Scorchers by eight wickets with five balls to spare.

Amy Hunter was presented with the SS20 trophy by Cricket Ireland president Donna Armstrong after Dragons completed the clean sweep with a sixth straight win in the afternoon match.

Almost four months after they were given, Cricket Ireland finally confirmed player contracts with PJ Moor and James McCollum omitted.

This was the Orla Prendergast show, another stand-out performance from the Ireland international extending Dragons lead at the top of the SS20 table and ensuring a fourth straight victory.

Cricket Ireland has today confirmed that Chief Executive Officer, Warren Deutrom, will step down as Chief Executive Officer at the end of August.

Where have all the swing bowlers gone? Simon Corlett asks the question and the reasons for their disappearance from the modern game.

Defending champions the Dragons made it two wins from two as they chased down 176 to beat the Scorchers by seven wickets with an over to spare in the T20 Trophy at Bready.

Ian Callender interviews Stephen Doheny about his 150 for Munster Reds and his international ambitions.

Matthew Humphreys was the one shining light for Ireland in Co Tyrone as the Boys in Green suffered a 62-run shellacking by the West Indies in a high-octane T20 international at the fast-scoring Bready ground.

Josh Little has joined Ireland’s ever-growing injury list and been forced to withdraw from the three-match T20 international series against the West Indies that gets underway in Co Tyrone today.

Seven years after the idea for a European franchise tournament was first floated, the latest iteration has been postponed. We were told unequivocally that this time would be different.

Ireland's injury concerns continue with three changes to the originally named squad for next week's T20I series against the West Indies at Bready.

Jordan Neill says if he faced the same situation when playing for Ireland, he would not hesitate to do it again, even though it ended his first appearance for his adopted country just 21 overs into last Sunday’s one-day international against West Indies.

MCC continued their tour of Ireland with a 36-run win against Munster Heat at Farmers Cross on Tuesday.

After four successive defeats to Ireland, it was no surprise that the West Indians came back hard in the third game of their ODI series in Clontarf. In a game interrupted by showers, the tourists came out on top by a whopping 197 runs to share the series 1-1.

Paul Stirling became the first Ireland batsman to score 6,000 one-day international runs but that’s about all the skipper had to cheer as his side were soundly beaten by the West Indies at Clontarf and had to settle for a 1-1 drawn series.

Harlequins had just enough in the batting tank to beat fierce rivals Cork County in their Munster Premier League match at Farmers Cross.

Bryan O'Donnell will succeed Donna Armstrong as Cricket Ireland President, taking office in 2026.