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Otago Daily Times
6 hours ago
- Science
- Otago Daily Times
Tekapo couple honoured for planetary defence contributions
By Katie Todd of RNZ For 50 years Pam Kilmartin and Alan Gilmore have quietly worked to track asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth. The couple, now in their 70s, had contributed detailed observations to international planetary defence programmes, using their vantage point in Tekapo and teamwork to swiftly gather unique data. Their work saw them jointly awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit, although Kilmartin said she was "terrified" at the thought of receiving the honour. "I don't really know how we came to get something like this. We have just been doing what we like for the last 50 years," she said. "We kind of feel a bit guilty about being honoured for what is fun for us." Kilmartin and Gilmore had discovered 41 asteroids, a comet and a nova - the latter two being "accidental" discoveries, Gilmore said. The couple established a programme tracking near-Earth asteroids, initially from Wellington's Carter Observatory and later from the University of Canterbury's Mt John Observatory in 1980. In the 1980s, evidence was mounting that an asteroid impact had caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and astronomers around the world were becoming increasingly aware of the potential threat posed by near-earth objects. Observatories around the world began tracking asteroids larger wider that 140m, within 20 times the moon's distance to Earth - that is, close enough to pose a collision risk. Kilmartin and Gilmore saw a gap in global search efforts: "the absence of any such work in the Southern Hemisphere," Gilmore said. Most of the discoveries were made by search programmes in Arizona and Hawaii, he explained. "Because we're in the Southern Hemisphere, there is a there is a parallax effect, that is, we're looking at the asteroid from a slightly different direction. That enables them to triangulate, to get a distance measurement estimate for the asteroid, and that improves the orbit calculation very quickly. So our location in New Zealand is very helpful for this work," he said. "The idea is to find these objects before they find us ... to come up with technology that could divert it a little bit." Such technology was put to the test in 2022 during NASA's DART mission, which successfully knocked a stadium-sized asteroid off-course. Stargazers in the making Kilmartin said her "vague" interest in astronomy was kindled in the small country town where she grew up, where "the stars were part of the scenery". Later, she deepened that interest at the Auckland Astronomical Society, joining a group of women learning the art of photoelectric photometry - a process to measure the brightness of stars. For Gilmore, the catalyst was seeing a shooting star while walking with his father one night in the 1950s. He was further inspired by a "neat little book on practical astronomy" that he found at the Hutt Intermediate School library that taught him how to make a telescope. By secondary school he was so adept at handling telescopes that he was invited to help test out possible sites for the University of Pennsylvania to set up a southern observation station in New Zealand. The pair met at an astronomical conference in Christchurch and married in Wellington in 1974 while working at the Carter Observatory - Kilmartin as an information officer and Gilmore as a researcher. It was then that they began working as a team, producing precise measurements that would put them on the international radar. "What really got us on the international scene was Michael Clark at Mt John Observatory discovered a small comet. He sent photographic plates of the comet to the Carter Observatory and Pam and I got more photos of it, and we measured up those plates and we produced the first precise positions of that comet globally," Gilmore said. Working in tandem The pair see their teamwork as a secret weapon, which allows them to report observations potentially faster than any other astronomy group in the world, Gilmore said. "We sort of share our skills back and forth," Kilmartin said. "Like they say, the sum is greater than its can be reporting observations internationally, literally within minutes of making them, because there's two of us operating," Gilmore said. "I'm controlling the telescope, selecting the next target and then operating the cameras that we have on the telescopes, that take many, many pictures. Pam drags those across to her laptop and runs a piece of software called Astrometrica which stacks the images so that we can find a particular asteroid. And then Astrometrica is able to measure the position of the asteroid and it produces the data in a format that we can then just simply paste into a website for the Minor Planet Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts." Astronomy will 'enhance your life' Gilmore twice served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand and edited its newsletter for 22 years, while Kilmartin was secretary for 18 years. From 1996 until their retirement in 2014, Gilmore was also Mt John Observatory's resident superintendent, managing its day-to-day operation. Gilmore had to learn to drive a tractor, while Kilmartin did "an awful lot of work shovelling snow off the paths and tracks", as well as hosting thousands of school children and visitors for tours. Now living in Tekapo with a large telescope at home, Gilmore said the couple continued to host groups. "We've tried to get involved with keeping our community involved and informed in astronomy," he said. "We send out, for instance, sets of sky charts every month, e-mailing them out to about 400 addresses. Some of them are schools and so on that circulate them to pupils." They said they were heartened by local growth in astro-tourism. Astronomy will "enhance your life," Kilmartin said, whether as a hobby or a career. More than a decade after their retirement, the pair continued making observations and sending data to the Minor Planet Centre. Gilmore said the University of Canterbury still supported them as "sort of honorary research associates", allowing them to access telescope time. "We just, for instance, worked until 1am this morning before clouds came in on one of the Mt John telescopes," he said. "Our work continues to be useful. It's not in any way cutting edge work, but it's a very handy contribution to international astronomy." Decades of plant protection honoured Closer to Earth, champion of the country's plant science sector Alison Stewart has been recognised as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. The current Foundation for Arable Research chief executive said the honour was a "very pleasant surprise" and exciting recognition for her field. "Plant science doesn't normally get profiled in this way," she said. Stewart has dedicated a 40-year career to sustainable plant protection, soil biology and plant bio-technology. Her work is credited for the commercialisation of biocontrol products used by New Zealand and overseas growers. She has also pioneered sustainable farming practices to improve crop yields and quality while minimising environmental impacts. Stewart said it had been gratifying work. "When the commercial companies that I've worked with have got products out in the marketplace that are being used by growers in New Zealand to support their sustainable production practices - and those products came from research that my research team has done over the 40 years... gosh, that's really nice to see," she said. Stewart was chief science officer at Marrone Bio Innovations in the US from 2013 to 2015, and general manager Forestry Science at Scion from 2015 to 2018. She describes her career as "a collection of all the things that I love doing, wrapped up into the most amazing jobs." Stewart said the recognition was not just about her. "I see it very much as a shout out for all those plant scientists in the country who do an amazing job to look after our native flora and support the development of our plant food producers," she said. "I think of the number of postgraduate students that I have supervised over the years. Seeing all of them go out to work in New Zealand companies - and they are now becoming leaders in their own right - I get a huge amount of satisfaction knowing that I contributed a little bit."
Otago Daily Times
a day ago
- Science
- Otago Daily Times
Guardians of the galaxy: Tekapo couple honoured
By Katie Todd of RNZ For 50 years Pam Kilmartin and Alan Gilmore have quietly worked to track asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth. The couple, now in their 70s, had contributed detailed observations to international planetary defence programmes, using their vantage point in Tekapo and teamwork to swiftly gather unique data. Their work saw them jointly awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit, although Kilmartin said she was "terrified" at the thought of receiving the honour. "I don't really know how we came to get something like this. We have just been doing what we like for the last 50 years," she said. "We kind of feel a bit guilty about being honoured for what is fun for us." Kilmartin and Gilmore had discovered 41 asteroids, a comet and a nova - the latter two being "accidental" discoveries, Gilmore said. The couple established a programme tracking near-Earth asteroids, initially from Wellington's Carter Observatory and later from the University of Canterbury's Mt John Observatory in 1980. In the 1980s, evidence was mounting that an asteroid impact had caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and astronomers around the world were becoming increasingly aware of the potential threat posed by near-earth objects. Observatories around the world began tracking asteroids larger wider that 140m, within 20 times the moon's distance to Earth - that is, close enough to pose a collision risk. Kilmartin and Gilmore saw a gap in global search efforts: "the absence of any such work in the Southern Hemisphere," Gilmore said. Most of the discoveries were made by search programmes in Arizona and Hawaii, he explained. "Because we're in the Southern Hemisphere, there is a there is a parallax effect, that is, we're looking at the asteroid from a slightly different direction. That enables them to triangulate, to get a distance measurement estimate for the asteroid, and that improves the orbit calculation very quickly. So our location in New Zealand is very helpful for this work," he said. "The idea is to find these objects before they find us ... to come up with technology that could divert it a little bit." Such technology was put to the test in 2022 during NASA's DART mission, which successfully knocked a stadium-sized asteroid off-course. Stargazers in the making Kilmartin said her "vague" interest in astronomy was kindled in the small country town where she grew up, where "the stars were part of the scenery". Later, she deepened that interest at the Auckland Astronomical Society, joining a group of women learning the art of photoelectric photometry - a process to measure the brightness of stars. For Gilmore, the catalyst was seeing a shooting star while walking with his father one night in the 1950s. He was further inspired by a "neat little book on practical astronomy" that he found at the Hutt Intermediate School library that taught him how to make a telescope. By secondary school he was so adept at handling telescopes that he was invited to help test out possible sites for the University of Pennsylvania to set up a southern observation station in New Zealand. The pair met at an astronomical conference in Christchurch and married in Wellington in 1974 while working at the Carter Observatory - Kilmartin as an information officer and Gilmore as a researcher. It was then that they began working as a team, producing precise measurements that would put them on the international radar. "What really got us on the international scene was Michael Clark at Mt John Observatory discovered a small comet. He sent photographic plates of the comet to the Carter Observatory and Pam and I got more photos of it, and we measured up those plates and we produced the first precise positions of that comet globally," Gilmore said. Working in tandem The pair see their teamwork as a secret weapon, which allows them to report observations potentially faster than any other astronomy group in the world, Gilmore said. "We sort of share our skills back and forth," Kilmartin said. "Like they say, the sum is greater than its can be reporting observations internationally, literally within minutes of making them, because there's two of us operating," Gilmore said. "I'm controlling the telescope, selecting the next target and then operating the cameras that we have on the telescopes, that take many, many pictures. Pam drags those across to her laptop and runs a piece of software called Astrometrica which stacks the images so that we can find a particular asteroid. And then Astrometrica is able to measure the position of the asteroid and it produces the data in a format that we can then just simply paste into a website for the Minor Planet Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts." Astronomy will 'enhance your life' Gilmore twice served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand and edited its newsletter for 22 years, while Kilmartin was secretary for 18 years. From 1996 until their retirement in 2014, Gilmore was also Mt John Observatory's resident superintendent, managing its day-to-day operation. Gilmore had to learn to drive a tractor, while Kilmartin did "an awful lot of work shovelling snow off the paths and tracks", as well as hosting thousands of school children and visitors for tours. Now living in Tekapo with a large telescope at home, Gilmore said the couple continued to host groups. "We've tried to get involved with keeping our community involved and informed in astronomy," he said. "We send out, for instance, sets of sky charts every month, e-mailing them out to about 400 addresses. Some of them are schools and so on that circulate them to pupils." They said they were heartened by local growth in astro-tourism. Astronomy will "enhance your life," Kilmartin said, whether as a hobby or a career. More than a decade after their retirement, the pair continued making observations and sending data to the Minor Planet Centre. Gilmore said the University of Canterbury still supported them as "sort of honorary research associates", allowing them to access telescope time. "We just, for instance, worked until 1am this morning before clouds came in on one of the Mt John telescopes," he said. "Our work continues to be useful. It's not in any way cutting edge work, but it's a very handy contribution to international astronomy." Decades of plant protection honoured Closer to Earth, champion of the country's plant science sector Alison Stewart has been recognised as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. The current Foundation for Arable Research chief executive said the honour was a "very pleasant surprise" and exciting recognition for her field. "Plant science doesn't normally get profiled in this way," she said. Stewart has dedicated a 40-year career to sustainable plant protection, soil biology and plant bio-technology. Her work is credited for the commercialisation of biocontrol products used by New Zealand and overseas growers. She has also pioneered sustainable farming practices to improve crop yields and quality while minimising environmental impacts. Stewart said it had been gratifying work. "When the commercial companies that I've worked with have got products out in the marketplace that are being used by growers in New Zealand to support their sustainable production practices - and those products came from research that my research team has done over the 40 years... gosh, that's really nice to see," she said. Stewart was chief science officer at Marrone Bio Innovations in the US from 2013 to 2015, and general manager Forestry Science at Scion from 2015 to 2018. She describes her career as "a collection of all the things that I love doing, wrapped up into the most amazing jobs." Stewart said the recognition was not just about her. "I see it very much as a shout out for all those plant scientists in the country who do an amazing job to look after our native flora and support the development of our plant food producers," she said. "I think of the number of postgraduate students that I have supervised over the years. Seeing all of them go out to work in New Zealand companies - and they are now becoming leaders in their own right - I get a huge amount of satisfaction knowing that I contributed a little bit."
The 42
2 days ago
- Sport
- The 42
Leinster take their time to see off Scarlets in scrappy quarter-final
Leinster 33 Scarlets 21 AS KICK-OFF APPROACHED at Aviva Stadium this URC quarter-final was struggling to generate a big-match feel. By the time full time arrived, Leinster were simply happy to have come through what threatened to become an uncomfortable afternoon. Leinster are back in the URC semi-finals thanks to a four-try win – the Leinster tries coming from James Lowe, Jamison Gibson-Park, Jamie Osborne and Hugo Keenan – but Scarlets had their say in this strange, often scrappy last eight clash. The streets surrounding the Aviva Stadium were unusually quiet in the hours before kick-off and in the early stages the contest itself almost had a pre-season feel to it. The official attendance was 12,879 – not a shockingly low number, but certainly one that got lost inside an almost 52,000 capacity stadium. The reasons were multiple – a Bank Holiday weekend, a limited DART service, the widely-held expectation that this would be plain sailing for Leinster. None of which really matters, the bottom line being Leinster booked their passage into next weekend's semi-finals and can look forward to a home clash with Glasgow Warriors. Initially, this game had looked to be heading toward a comprehensive Leinster win. The opening 10 minutes was all Leinster, and in that time they struck for two tries from Lowe and Gibson-Park. Lowe's try, four minutes in, was sharp and accurate and sourced in the winger's booming kick into the Scarlets half. Leinster built territory and Sam Prendergast swung a sweet pass out the back before Keenan and Ryan Baird added touches, surviving a couple of Scarlets' half-blocks, with Lowe going over in an acre of space in the corner. Prendergast's first shot at the posts sailed well wide. Gibson-Park added the second in the ninth minute, benefitting from Jack Conan's linebreak off a short Lowe pass. This time Prendergast tapped over the extra two from close range. It looked ominous for the Scarlets, but the Welsh side held their nerve. Leinster continued to enjoy most of the possession but a cutting edge was missing. After that strong start the province added just one Prendergast penalty across the next 30 minutes. Instead of kicking on, elements of their play broke down – overthrowing a lineout in the Scarlets 22, Prendergast failing to find touch with a free kick. Scarlets were spirited and scrappy and capitalised on the few opportunities that landed in their hands. The first, 20 minutes in, saw the visitors take full advantage of their first meaningful attack – using a lineout to sweep to the left and score through Tom Rogers, the winger released by Sam Costelow's excellent hands. Costelow stepped up to add the conversion as Leinster rued some questionable defending. Their second try arrived on the stroke of half-time, Leinster getting turned from one tryline to the other. Leinster were pumping at the Scarlets line and their third try looked inevitable. Then it all crumbled – Gibson-Park's pass hitting Prendergast but spilling from the out-half's hands. Ellis Mee snapped onto the loose ball and got his boot to it before Osborne could smother the fire. Mee's second kick pushed the ball infront of fullback Blair Murray, who had Jordie Barrett biting at his heels. Murray's two short kicks kept the ball in his control as he arched away from the All Blacks to dive on the ball and score. Advertisement Scarlets' Blair Murray and Leinster's Jordie Barrett chase the ball. Billy Stickland / INPHO Billy Stickland / INPHO / INPHO After a quick TMO check, the grounding was deemed good and Costelow's conversion made it a one-point game at half-time. The teams retreated as the heavens opened, soaking a crowd fully contained within the lower tiers of the ground. The downpour ended as the second half got off a to slow, cagey start. Five minutes in, Prendergast cut Scarlets open by sending a smart chip over the top for Osborne to score, despite a somewhat unconvincing TMO check. Prendergast's conversion moved Leinster eight clear. Scarlets had a chance to hit back immediately – Leinster going off feet, Costelow smacking his shot wide to the right. Leinster kept prodding. Dan Sheehan, sprung from the bench, went rampaging down the wing off a short lineout. After Sheehan bounced a defender Leinster moved the ball right to left, with Osborne sending Lowe hunting in the corner. Lowe was swallowed up by Scarlets but a penalty followed as front-rower Alec Hepburn saw yellow. Leinster went again but the attack broke down as the ball was knocked-on. Jimmy O'Brien is tackled by Sam Costelow. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo The pressure was building and moments later Leinster had their fourth, with Sheehan again the catalyst. His charge and block on Archie Hughes put Leinster back on the offensive, with RG Snyman grinding out some extra yards before Prendergast and Barrett combined to send Keenan racing through. Prendergast should have scored the conversion, but for the first time in a long time, Leinster were looking comfortable again, 13 up heading into the final quarter. Both coaches turned to their benches as Prendergast added another penalty. Entering the final 10, Scarlets sparked back into life – Ioan Llyod producing a nice delayed pass, with Vaea Fifita and Marnus van der Merwe using clever hands before Johnny Williams crossed, with Lloyd converting to leave his team chasing a nine-point game. The Scarlets still had hope, but were damaged by the loss of Fifita moments later – the backrower yellow-carded following high contact on Keenan. Prendergast kicked the penalty and Leinster had the finish line in sight. Leinster scorers: Tries: Lowe, Gibson-Park, Osborne, Keenan. Penalties: Prendergast [3/3] Conversion: Prendergasts [2/4] Scarlets scorers: Tries: Rogers, Murray, Williams Penalty: Costelow [0/1] Conversions: Costelow [2/2], Lloyd [1/1]. LEINSTER: Hugo Keenan (Ciarán Frawley, 74) Jimmy O'Brien, Jamie Osborne, Jordie Barrett, James Lowe; Sam Prendergast, Jamison Gibson-Park (Luke McGrath, 66); Andrew Porter (Jack Boyle, 66), Rónan Kelleher (Dan Sheehan, 47), Thomas Clarkson (Rabah Slimani, 58); Joe McCarthy, James Ryan (RG Snyman, 47); Ryan Baird, Josh van der Flier (Scott Penny, 29), Jack Conan (capt) (Max Deegan, 67). SCARLETS: Blair Murray; Tom Rogers (Macs Page, 64), Joe Roberts, Johnny Williams, Ellis Mee; Sam Costelow (Ioan Lloyd, 58), Archie Hughes (Efan Jones, 74); Alec Hepburn, Ryan Elias (Marnus van der Merwe, 51), Henry Thomas (Sam Wainwright, 64); Alex Craig (Kemsley Mathias, 57), Sam Lousi; Vaea Fifita, Josh Macleod (capt) (Dan Davis, 74), Taine Plumtree. Yellow cards: Alec Hepburn 55, Fifita 73 Attendance: 12,879 Referee: Hollie Davidson (SRU)
ABC News
3 days ago
- General
- ABC News
Meet the NASA scientist tasked with identifying asteroids on a collision course with Earth
The bright green meteor that blazed a trail over the skies of southern WA earlier this month served as a spectacular reminder of just how vulnerable the Earth is to threats from space. Country police officer and amateur meteorite hunter Marcus Scott found a tennis ball sized piece of the space rock, dubbed the Mother's Day meteorite, in a salt lake about 460 kilometres east of Perth. Hollywood has taught us to fear giant 'planet killer' asteroids, but it's the smaller space rocks that could destroy an entire city. Thankfully, a NASA scientist is on the case, with the job of protecting the planet against such threats. Dr Kelly Fast oversees NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office, which is responsible for identifying and tracking asteroids, and figuring out if any of these rocky bodies could be on a collision course with Earth. Larger meteors can survive the trip through the atmosphere, often in spectacular fashion, like the Mother's Day meteorite which was estimated to be about half a metre in size. It slammed into the atmosphere above WA travelling at about 15 kilometres a second, before breaking up and landing in a salt lake in the Goldfields. Dr Fast and her colleagues around the world track more than 37,000 near-Earth asteroids, with the US Congress expecting NASA to find 90 per cent of asteroids larger than 140 metres. It's the smaller asteroids that pose the danger because they are harder to find, but could still destroy a land mass the size of an Australian city or even a state. "The asteroid hazard is a global issue. The first order of business is finding asteroids… it's the only natural disaster that you could potentially prevent," she said. Last year an asteroid named 2024 YR4 was discovered, with initial calculations indicating it could come dangerously close to Earth in just seven years' time. With a diameter of approximately 50 metres, if it struck the earth it could cause widespread devastation of a similar scale to the Tunguska event in Siberia in 1908. That explosion occurred over a sparsely populated area, flattening more than 2,000 square kilometres of forest. Dr Fast said there were a few different forms of technology that could potentially be used to neutralise the threat from an asteroid, and they all sound like they are straight out of a science fiction movie. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphous in September 2022, successfully changing the orbit of the 160-metre diameter celestial body. "That was the simplest technique — to impact an asteroid and change its speed, and it was successfully tested with DART," Dr Fast said. To date, it's been the only real world test to save the planet from destruction caused by a rogue space rock. Other techniques being studied include ion beam deflection, using a spacecraft to fire charged particles at the asteroid, giving it a slight nudge to change its orbit. The 'Star Trek' sounding "gravity tractor" is another possible solution, and entails parking an object next to the asteroid and using the slight change in gravity to change its orbit. "And then there's what we always like to call the Hollywood option, because it's what's always used in the movies — a nuclear deflection," Dr Fast said. Although she warned such a technique could create even more of a hazard from the debris field of an exploded asteroid. Dr Fast is hoping there won't be a need to use any of these techniques in our lifetime, but says developing the technology to protect the planet will be a gift for future generations. This week Dr Fast spoke at the Australian Space Awards in Sydney, where she emphasised Australia's importance in keeping the planet safe from the threat of asteroids. And while Australia might be half a world away from NASA headquarters in Washington D.C., two teams of Australian researchers form part of the International Asteroid Warning Network. The University of New South Wales Canberra team search for asteroids using optical telescopes as well as the Parkes Radio Telescope, famous for its role in broadcasting Neil Armstrong's moon walk. On the other side of the country, researchers at the University of Western Australia use the one-metre diameter Zadko Telescope, located about 70 kilometres north of Perth in Gingin, to scan the skies for threats from space. Hollywood-born Dr Fast has a degree in astrophysics and a doctorate in astronomy. She also has the honour of having a nearly three-kilometre diameter space rock named after her, Asteroid Kellyfast. "Like pretty much all asteroids that are named for people, let's hope it stays safely out in the main belt [of space]" she said with a laugh.
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Leinster Rugby issue urgent warning to fans ahead of URC quarter-final clash against the Scarlets
LEINSTER fans heading to the URC quarter-final showdown against the Scarlets at the Aviva Stadium this weekend are being warned of major rail disruption . 2 Leinster face Scarlets at Aviva tomorrow in the URC last-eight 2 Travel disruptions will be in place at the venue - Leinster have urged fans to travel early And fans have been urged to get the the stadium early as travel disruptions are set to wreak havoc. There will be no DART service between Connolly and Dún Laoghaire due to planned Irish Rail engineering works - throwing a travel spanner into the A whopping 11 city and suburban stations will be closed, including key stops like Lansdowne Road, Grand Canal Dock, Pearse, Tara Street and more. In a statement shared on social media, Leinster Rugby confirmed that fans should plan ahead and allow extra time, with delays expected. read more on rugby The following stations will be shut all weekend: Tara Street, Pearse, Grand Canal Dock, Lansdowne Road, Sandymount, Sydney Parade, Booterstown, Blackrock, Seapoint, Salthill and Monkstown. While DART trains will still run from Malahide and Howth to Connolly, and from Dún Laoghaire to Bray and Greystones, anyone relying on stations in the affected zone will need to make alternative plans. There is some good news. Most read in Rugby Union Dublin Bus and Go-Ahead Ireland will accept valid rail tickets between closed stations, helping ease the blow. Matchgoers can find full travel updates via Irish Rail or at this official webiste. 'Jack Crowley he's coming for you' jokes Peter O'Mahony's wife Jess as son practices his rugby skills Leinster team to play Scarlets Leinster: Hugo Keenan; Jimmy O'Brien, Jamie Osborne, Jordie Barrett, James Lowe; Sam Prendergast, Jamison Gibson-Park; Andrew Porter, Rónan Kelleher, Thomas Clarkson; Joe McCarthy, James Ryan; Ryan Baird, Josh van der Flier, Jack Conan (capt). Replacements: Dan Sheehan, Jack Boyle, Rabah Slimani, RG Snyman, Max Deegan, Scott Penny, Luke McGrath, Ciarán Frawley.
