{"id":325940,"date":"2026-03-03T02:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/325940\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:56:14","slug":"blackrock-have-edge-on-st-michaels-to-book-leinster-school-senior-cup-final-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/325940\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackrock have edge on St Michael\u2019s to book Leinster School Senior Cup final berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Blackrock 22 St Michael\u2019s 17\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2 March 2026; Bernard White of Blackrock College in action against Sam Dunne of St Michael's College during the Bank of Ireland Leinster Rugby Boys Schools Senior Cup semi-final match between St Michael's College and Blackrock College at Energia Park in Dublin. Photo by Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/528b0826-9cd0-47a5-9220-e75268f5c333.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">2 March 2026; Bernard White of Blackrock College in action against Sam Dunne of St Michael&#8217;s College during the Bank of Ireland Leinster Rugby Boys Schools Senior Cup semi-final match between St Michael&#8217;s College and Blackrock College at Energia Park in Dublin. Photo by Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An edge in power drove Blackrock into the Leinster Schools Senior Cup final in a cauldron at Energia Park on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The heavier \u2018Rock runners were keen to exploit their advantage in weight, a ruck infringement encouraging Luke Coffey to slot the lead points in the 10th minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackrock 22 St Michael\u2019s 17 2 March 2026; Bernard White of Blackrock College in action against Sam Dunne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-325940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}