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Queen’s made it two consecutive bonus point wins in Division 1B fighting back from a 17 point deficit in the second half to beat Garryowen 41-32 at the Dub. 

The Limerick side had led 25-8 before Queen’s scored five tries in the autumn sunshine, coach Derek Suffern was delighted to get the five points. 

“The boys are ecstatic and very happy with the result but maybe not as happy with their first half performance but to show that resilience when they went ahead early doors in the second half I though the boys showed great character and played some really good stuff in that second half and that will give them lots of confidence moving forward into the next block.,” said Suffern. 

“We started pretty well in the game and then just slipped off and to be fair to Garryowen they took their chances very well in the first half.” 

“We regrouped at half time and were a bit more like ourselves in the second half and played with a bit of tempo and better flow in our attacking shape and scored some nice tries, a couple of them opportunist but we’ll certainly take it.” 

The victory took the students into the top four and they are adapting well to their first ever season in the second tier of the AIL. 

“We won’t really sure what to expect when we started playing in this division but we are three games in and we have certainly been very competitive in every fixture and won two of them.” 

“We take a lot of confidence going into the next block and we’ll try to take it one game at a time and get point out of every game.” 

“Some of the young guys that are just out of school are performing very well and I suppose the really pleasing thing is physical we are coping very well, and it is exciting times for us.” 

“We’re happy with bits and pieces with our performances, I think with a lot of knew players in it will take us a bit of time to gel and we are slowing doing that on and off the pitch.” 

“Hopefully we can keep going at that and learn every week and keep improving and if we do that we’ll challenge anytime in the league. 

A Jonny Hunter try and James Humphreys penalty gave Queen’s an early 8-0 lead. 

Garryowen hit back with two tries, one was converted and a penalty to lead 15-8 at the break. 

The visitors scored two quick unconverted tries after the break before Queen’s hit back with a five try salvo. 

Harry Long and Humphreys went over with the out half converting his own try. 

Hunter’s second try which Humphreys converted put the students in the lead before converted scores from Ryan Davies and Peter Heasley put the game beyond Garryowen. 

Match Report : Ciaran Donaghy