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Queen’s College Galway Rugby Club was founded in 1874, 150 years ago, making it the oldest rugby club in Connacht. They have a long and proud history and have helped nurture and boost many rugby careers helping players to the highest levels. They were a founding club of the Irish Rugby Football Union. They won their first Connacht Senior Cup in 1897 and have managed to hold that trophy aloft many times since. Their first victory in the Dudley Cup, played for by the three Queen’s Universities, was in 1905. They have featured many times in the Bateman Cup, an exclusive competition in which clubs participate by invitation only.

Connacht host their only home fixture of the Vodafone Women’s Interprovincial Championship on Saturday (2.30pm) when Munster arrive at Dexcom Stadium in search of another title.

Connacht felt the full force of an Ulster outfit desperate for a victory when the two met again in this season’s women’s interprovincial series in Musgrave Park.

Connacht women did everything they could to secure a place in this year's interprovincial finals. Following a superb victory over Leinster, they achieved the necessary win against Ulster, but on this occasion two out of three was not enough - Leinster's win over Munster ensured they prevailed on points difference.

Having led Galway to victory with a 10-point haul in 2001, manager Padraic Joyce knows what it takes

Staff at the GMIT School of Engineering have designed and developed a new type of emergency ventilator which can be produced rapidly and inexpensively to assist the medics in the treatment of COIVD-19 patients.