The Irish age Grade interpro series are a great watermark of top level talent in their respective ages and development structures, ultimately this system feeds into the provinces academies and Ireland international systems.<\/p>\n
It may be useful to start with a quick overview of the playing populations of each province<\/p>\n
Province\u2014\u2014- No. of Schools\u2014\u2014- No. of Clubs\u2014\u2014 No. of Academy Players
\nConnacht \u2014\u2014 33\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013 28\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013 19 as of the 2014\/15 season \/ previously up to 2013\/14 it was 17)
\nUlster \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 96\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014- 57\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013 18 as of the 2014\/15 season \/ previously it was up to 2013\/14 12)
\nMunster \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 61 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014- 67\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013 20
\nLeinster \u2014\u2014\u2014 50 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014- 50+\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 23<\/p>\n
(we have yet to find online any definitive guide to these numbers but have studied various resources online to at least begin to build a picture, it may have up to a 10% +\/- variance, what we do believe to be reliable is the number of Academy players.)<\/p>\n
There are 4 competitions that we will consider here. 1) U20S, 2) U19S, 3) Schools U18S, 4) Clubs U18S<\/p>\n
U20S) <\/strong> Ulster 3 wins from 3 U19S<\/strong><\/p>\n 6th Sept Connacht 17 v Ulster 24 Leinster 19 v Munster 10 Leinster 3 wins from 3 U18 Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n 6th Sept Ulster 53 v Connacht 0 Ulster 1 win 1 draw from 3 U18 Clubs<\/strong><\/p>\n 13th Sept Munster 23 v Connacht 17 Ulster 3 – Leinster 60 Leinster & Munster 2 wins from 2 So far Ulster U20S are tournament champions & Leinster U19S are tournament champions.<\/p>\n With the Schools and Clubs competitions still to be decided. Leinster and Munster are on 2 wins each in the clubs comp and in the schools competition Munster are ahead of the pack with 2 wins from 2 games!<\/p>\n The most exciting of competitions that provides Ireland and Lions level talent each year. <\/p>\n Its not over yet but looking forward to the final games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Irish age Grade interpro series are a great watermark of top level talent in their respective ages and development structures, ultimately this system feeds into the provinces academies and Ireland international systems. It may be useful to start with a quick overview of the playing populations of each province Province\u2014\u2014- No. of Schools\u2014\u2014- No. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11116,8763,8764,5701,5967,4221],"class_list":["post-73153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-11116","tag-age","tag-grade","tag-interpro","tag-irish","tag-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73156,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73153\/revisions\/73156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDate 6th Sept Ulster 27 v Connacht 7 Munster 20 v Leinster 32
\nDate 13th Sept Ulster 15 v Leinster 10 Connacht 13 v Munster 10
\nDate 16th Sept Ulster 17 v Munster 12 Leinster 61 v Connacht 34<\/p>\n
\nLeinster 2 wins from 3
\nConnacht 1 win from 2
\nMunster 0 wins from 3<\/p>\n
\n13th Sept Leinster 40 v Ulster 13 Munster 30 v Connacht 10
\n20th Sept Ulster 5 v Munster 3 Leinster 38 v Connacht 7<\/p>\n
\nUlster 2 wins from 3
\nMunster 1 win from 3
\nConnacht 0 wins from 3<\/p>\n
\n13th Sept Ulster 17 v Leinster 17 Munster 24 v Connacht 3
\nLeinster v Connacht Postponed and Munster v Leinster yet to be played.
\n20th Sept Ulster 7 v Munster 22
\nA number of these games have yet to take place, we will bring you more info on this as soon as we can.<\/p>\n
\nMunster 2 wins from 3
\nLeinster 1 draw from 1 game<\/p>\n
\n20th Sept Ulster 6 v Munster 34 Leinster 38 v Connacht 7<\/p>\n
\nConnacht 2 losses from 2
\nUlster 2 losses from 2<\/p>\n