As I drank my morning cuppa and listened to RTE Radio (BBC Radio 4 is useless on Sunday mornings until 8:50), I checked the rainfall radar: a few light showers over Co. Meath, otherwise nothing.

All the action from the Irish Cup, National Cup and Ulster Shield.

Ruan Pretorius created Irish Senior Cup history by clubbing 6 sixes in an over as Waringstown beat 2013 winners Clontarf in a thrilling encounter at Castle Avenue.

Lee Nelson and Andrew Cowden, the Waringstown and Civil Service North captains, are united in concern about a fixture list that is hampering their chances of reaching the last four of the Irish Cup.

There was no luck for the two remaining NCU teams in the Irish Senior Cup when the draw for the quarter-finals was made.

Six Leinster sides make the quarter-finals, but Holders The Hills are out.

The draws were made for the quarter-finals of the Irish Senior and National Cups today at Bready.

The North West’s poor run in the Irish Senior Cup continued on Saturday when the last three sides left standing all failed to overcome difficult away 2nd round ties in Dublin.

WARINGSTOWN will have home advantage after all in the second round of the Irish Senior Cup after Co Galway failed to find a ground in Dublin and have agreed to travel to The Lawn.

County Galway have been confirmed as Waringstown's opponents in Round Two after an investigation by Cricket Ireland's Event Technical Committee.

Fox Lodge are set to be reinstated in the Irish Cup, despite their first round exit on Saturday.

Hard fought Irish Cup tie sees Merrion emerge victorious.

More pain on the road for NCU as both Instonians and CIYMS crash out in Dublin. Strabane beat Railway, while Galway win at Fox Lodge.

The NCU’s track record of success against Dublin clubs in their own backyard in the Irish Cup doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny.

Strabane and Fox Lodge hoping home advantage counts in their re-arranged Irish Senior Cup games.

It is only the fourth weekend of the season but already there is fixture congestion for clubs in both the NCU and North West.

The North West’s Irish Cup campaign already reads like the Liberal Democrats’ performance at the General Election. A virtual wipeout.

IT was NCU 4 North West 1 in the first round of the Irish Cup as the Northern union piled up the proverbial football score on another nightmare day for the Warriors’ club sides.

Holders The Hills are safely through to the next round of the Irish Senior Cup following a 40 run win over NCU kingpins North Down.

Coleraine fared no better as Muckamore’s new man Ryan Haire showed all his class to lead the visitors to another DL verdict further along the north coast.

Brigade were also one of the fancied teams to fall as another batting collapse here saw them edged out by 22 runs (DL) at home to Civil Service North.

As fate would have it, North Down just had to be drawn against Irish Cup holders The Hills in Saturday’s first round.

Ulster teams' annual quest for Irish Cup glory resumes on Saturday, desperately hoping to improve a record of just four finalists in the last 10 years.