In cricket he was a member of the Junior Cup-winning team in 1950 ; in tennis, he was in a Leinster Schools Cup-winning team, and reached the under-15 national semi-finals.

The minor ( under-18 ) Longford county team won the Leinster title in 2002, and recently in 2010, and their teams at under-21 level have reached several Leinster finals over the last few years ( including 2006 ).

The club decided to enter the senior ranks for the 1897 – 98 Season and reached the Leinster Senior Cup Final at their first attempt, only to lose to Bohemians.

Munster also reached the final of the Celtic League this season, but lost to Leinster, 24 – 20 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin.

In the 2008 – 09 season, Munster once again topped their group in the Heineken Cup and reached the semi-final, but lost to arch-rivals Leinster by 25 – 6, attended by a world record crowd of over 82, 200.

In 1921, Shamrock Rovers were resurrected once more, as a Leinster Senior League outfit, and reached the final of the inaugural FAI Cup, where they lost to St James's Gate in a fixture marred by crowd violence.

In 1944 the club reached the Leinster Football Association Shield final but was disqualified for fielding an illegal player in the semi-final.

Wanderers also reached the Leinster Junior Final that season, but were defeated by Rathfarnham in the final.

The club was founder members of the Leinster Junior League in 1896 and reached the semi-finals of the Leinster Senior Cup in 1897.

2010 saw the Junior team reach the Junior Cup final for the 3rd year in a row, however in 2008 & 2009 the Blackrock Junior A team completed the Leinster double, with victories in both Junior Cup and Junior League, and also reached the final of the Junior All Irelands in both seasons.

In April, he reached Cadiz with rotted ships, where he issued magnificent passports to Irishmen returning home, describing himself as Marquess of Leinster ( a title bestowed by the pope ).

To date in 2009, an improved Kildare side reached the Leinster Final only to suffer a defeat to Dublin.

Now the Munster and Leinster champions and defeated finalists automatically qualified for the new quarter-final stages.

2011 saw Kildare advance to the Leinster semi-final after defeating Meath in the Leinster quarter-final only to be defeated by Dublin. Kildare had a good run in the qualifiers beating teams like Laois, Meath & Derry to advance to the All-Ireland quarter-final to face Ulster champions Donegal which turned to be a very poor performance but the 2nd half was a real contest from both sides with the sides finishing level to drag the game into extra-time only to be defeated by a single point by Donegal.

In 996 Brian finally managed to control the province of Leinster, which may have been what led Máel Sechnaill to reach a compromise with him in the following year.

He fought Mes Gedra, king of Leinster, in single combat following a battle provoked by the Ulster poet Athirne.

In 945 the two defeated part of Ruaidrí's army in Conaille Muirtheimne ( modern County Louth ) and the following year Amlaíb raided Kilcullen in the province of Leinster.

The following season ( 2008 – 09 ) Edinburgh leap-frogged Leinster and the Ospreys on the final day of the competition to finish runners-up behind Munster.

The following week Leicester lost the Heineken Cup final in Edinburgh to Irish province Leinster, containing former Leicester favourites captain Leo Cullen and openside Shane Jennings.

In 1981 he became a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for Leinster to replace Liam Kavanagh who became Minister for Labour following the 1981 general election.

Wexford lost their Leinster crown in 1952, however, two years later in 1954 Wexford regained the title following a huge victory over Dublin.

Shelbourne finished runners-up the following two seasons and won the 1924 Leinster Senior Cup, the reds finished third in the league again in the 1924 – 25 season before winning the league for their first time the following season in 1925 – 26. They finished runners-up the following two years before winning the 1928 – 29 Championship.

That year Carey won a Leinster medal in that grade following a 2-16 to 0-6 trouncing of Offaly.

In 1992 Kilkenny bounced back from the All-Ireland defeat and Carey collected a second Leinster medal following a comprehensive 3-16 to 2-9 defeat of Wexford.

In 2001 Carey added a seventh Leinster medal to his collection following another 2-19 to 0-12 demolition of Wexford in the provincial final.

MacMurrough came to an agreement with de Clare: for the Earl ’ s assistance with an army the following spring, he could have Aoife, Diarmuid's eldest daughter in marriage and the succession to Leinster.

The team began the 2007 / 2008 season well with a young side beating an Ospreys side including All Blacks leg-end Justin Marshall 17 – 16 however following their opening day win the team went on a terrible run of form losing their next 3 games before David Humphreys inspired the team to a comeback draw against a star studded Leinster side at Ravenhill, suggesting that the return of their World Cup stars could lead Ulster back up the table.

Under Williams Ulster seemed to get back on track with a brave display in France culminating in an unlucky 24 – 17 away defeat to Bourgoin and following an away win at Connacht, 30 – 13, things seemed to be improving however Ulster then lost at home to Edinburgh, home and away to the Ospreys in the Heineken Cup and away to Leinster to leave them firmly rooted to the bottom of the Celtic League and out of Europe.

Moffat first served in the Connaught Rangers and was 34 years old private in the 2nd Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

The following season Wanderers left the AUL and joined the Leinster Senior league ( LSL ).

After this success the club moved up another level the following season by joining the Leinster Senior League Division 1 and played their first game away to UCD in August 1932 and won 4-2.

The Book of Leinster lists the following sons by Brychan's wife, Dína daughter of the King of the Saxons: Mo-Goróc, Mo-Chonóc ( Cynog ), Diraid, Dubán ( Dyfnan ), Cairinne ( Caian ), Cairpre, Iast, Ellóc ( Dilic ), Paan, Cáemán and Mo-Beóc,

Party leaders in the Dáil ( Irish parliament ), sitting about 300 metres from the site of the South Leinster Street blast, commented on the following Monday.

The following 9th century Irish praise poem from the Book of Leinster is associated with Óengus:

The following year he made his Leinster Championship debut, however, Kilkenny were the victors in the provincial final.

The following year Wexford continued their provincial dominance with Rackard adding a third Leinster medal to his collection.

In that year, he was chosen to lead a Norman expedition to Ireland in support of Diarmait Mac Murchada, the deposed King of Leinster.

He also won the Ulster Trophy Handicap at Dundrod and the Leinster Trophy at Wicklow that year.

Though plans were periodically discussed for the erection of a new parliament building ( a site was even considered in the Phoenix Park ), parliament has remained in Leinster House, to which additional offices were added in the 1950s and most recently in the year 2000.

The men's side of the club are in its 26th year, and has between 40 and 50 members, with their 1st team currently in Leinster League Division 4, the 2nd team play in Division 7. The Ladies side of the club were re-formed three years ago, after a break of five years and also have two teams.

Late in the year, the Ulster and Leinster Confederate armies under Owen Roe O ' Neill and Thomas Preston ( a total of 18, 000 men ) laid siege to Dublin, trying to take the city off Ormonde ’ s Royalist garrison.

Within a short few years, many of the finest mansions, including Leinster House, Powerscourt House and Aldborough House, once owned by peers who spent much of their year in the capital, were for sale.

Under Matthews Shelbourne won the 2010 Leinster Senior Cup, later that year Shelbourne narrowly missed out on a place in the Promotion Play-offs thanks to a 2 – 1 defeat at home to Waterford United on the final day of the season.

In spite of this victory 1995 proved to be an unhappy year for Carey as Kilkenny were trounced by Offaly in the Leinster final.

That year Carey won his fifth Leinster title as Offaly, the All-Ireland champions, fell heavily in the provincial final.

Ireland's first home game was also against England in the same year held at the Leinster Cricket Club in Rathmines as Lansdowne Road was deemed unsuitable.

The final saw them defeat Tallaght CS and go on to win the Leinster title the same year.

The only two certainties about the origins of the club in relation to what year they were formed are the facts that, Rovers played only exhibition games for the first two years of their existence and the club registered with the Leinster Football Association in 1901.

The Saints won the 2011 Leinster Senior Cup after beating Dublin rivals Bohemians 2-0 at Dalymount Park. The Saints bid to end their 50 year drought of winning the FAI Cup came to a heartbreaking end, after knocking Crumlin United, Waterford United and Cork City out, the Saints faced old rivals Shelbourne in the semi-final.

The next year brought yet more glory with the club winning the Leinster Senior League in only their second year at this level.

John de Courcy, of Stoke Courcy, in Somerset, came to Ireland around the year 1175 as part of the saxon invading forces, brought in as mercenaries working for Dermot MacMurrough, the ousted King of Leinster, to help him regain his position as King.

There was a tradition-not borne out, however, by any tangible evidence or confirmation and quite possibly invented by the Earl of Cromartie-that the family deduced its descent from a member of the House of Geraldine, in Ireland ( whence sprang the noble families of Leinster, Desmond, & c .), who, with a considerable number of his followers, was stated to have settled in Scotland about the year 1261 and to have so powerfully aided King Alexander III in repelling the invasion of Haco, King of Norway.

At a meeting in March of that year ( 1893 ) at Leinster Hall Atkinson declared that a breach in the Union between the United Kingdom and Ireland would mean an end to civil and religious liberty.

The largest Irish guerrilla forces under John Fitzpatrick ( in Leinster ), Edmund O ' Dwyer ( in Munster ) and Edmund Daly ( in Connacht ) surrendered in 1652, under terms signed at Kilkenny in May of that year.

In the tale in the Book of Leinster, Labraid invites Cobthach, along with thirty kings of Ireland, to visit him, and builds an iron house at Dind Ríg to receive them, which takes a year to build.

In February 2012, Parks signed a 2 year contract with Galway based Pro 12 team Connacht Rugby, joining the club for the start of the 2012 / 2013 RaboDirect Pro12 campaign on a two year contract. Parks made his debut for Connacht Rugby in a Rabo Direct Pro 12 game against Irish rivals Leinster Rugby. Parks scored two conversions and a penalty all adding up to seven points.