8.30pm Embargo – Guinness PRO12 Award Winners Announced For immediate release: Sunday 17 May 2015 Issued on behalf of GUINNESS PRO12 Rugby Rhys Webb (Ospreys) won the ‘Players’ Player of the Season’ Award and Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (Edinburgh) the ‘Young Player of the Season’ Award at the Guinness PRO12 Awards evening in the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin […]
World Rugby rolls out record testing programme in 2014 More anti-doping tests were carried out by World Rugby last year than at any other point since testing began, underlining its commitment to maintaining a level playing field in the game. Rugby’s governing body has long believed in the preventative power of education to back-up its […]
Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Round Up Saturday 27th December 2014. There were six school friendly games scheduled for Saturday 27th December but, for a variety of reasons, only two took place. The Royal School, Dungannon v Ballyclare High School game lost out to a frozen pitch in Dungannon while the Limavady Grammar School v Omagh […]
Image credit :- © Dan Sheridan/www.Inpho.ie 2014 Your Club Your Country Grand Draw Raises €654,000 for Clubs The IRFU’s 2014 ‘Your Club, Your Country’ Grand Draw, in association with Ulster Bank, raised over €654,000 euro this year up 23% on last year’s total. Last year the scheme raised €530,000 for clubs around the country and […]
Silverware and the opportunity for Ulster AIL clubs and players to add winners medals to their personal collection are prized as such opportunities do not present themselves too often to Ulster clubs in the All Ireland league. Ulster’s number one club Ballynahinch slipped up last season at the Kingspan stadium to Queens in the Senior […]
The professionalism of club youth rugby athletes and coaches is superb! Professional in all that they do, courteous, friendly, focused on practicing their development of rugby union, superb athletes. Mental Health = Staying in a good place in order to make better decisions while playing. Nutrition = Extra consumption of Fruit & Veg & well […]