It was the battle of “The” Royal Schools on a dry and sunny Thursday afternoon as Armagh met Dungannon in the Ulster Schools Subsidiary Shield Final at Queen’s Arena, The Dub.

Despite mis-fielding the kick off Armagh started the game with some intent with a big clearing drive from the resulting line out and they looked to be getting the better of the opening exchanges.

After a couple of visits into the Dungannon 22, Armagh finally got their account up and running with wing forward Finn Fenhert just about finding the line on the 12 minute for the opening score. Matthew Monaghan added the conversion to give Armagh a deserved 7 – 0 lead.

Dungannon . . .