Malone hold on to win a close encounter against Shannon, the final result saw Malone take the win by 37-34 in their final game of the season. With over 200 people attending a pre match lunch at Gibson Park, both teams did not disappoint the spectators as they put on a thrilling display of entertaining […]
ARMAGHrugby 37 Queens University 6 Armagh played their sixth fixture in the Ulster Senior league on Thursday when they entertained Queens University evening under lights on the Palace grounds. Last season’s corresponding fixture saw Queens win by a solitary point in a typical hard fought struggle on The Dub Playing Fields, Belfast. Thursday’s game kicked […]
The Ireland Coaching Team has named a squad of 37 players for the forthcoming Guinness Series which features Tests against South Africa, Georgia and Australia. The squad, captained by Paul O’Connell, features five uncapped players including Connacht’s Darragh Leader and Nathan White, Ulster’s Jared Payne, Munster’s Dave Foley and Leinster’s Dominic Ryan. Ireland take on […]
Ulster U19’s v Connacht U19’s 14th August 2013 The Ulster U19 squad travelled to Ashbourne RFC to play the Connacht U19 team in a match designed to give both Management teams the opportunity to use as many players as possible in the build up to the Interprovincioal series due to take place in September. It […]
This was a good game of rugby played on a sunny but breezy afternoon at Stevenson Park. Ballymena never recovered from Dungannon’s devastating start of ten points in three minutes. The next fifty minutes were closer but when Dungannon’s All Ireland League centurion Glen Sinnamon dived over for the bonus point try sealing Dungannon’s win […]
Enniskillen entertained a quality Ballymena side at Mullaghmeen in the semi-final of the Towns Cup and despite an excellent effort fell short in the dying minutes. Ballymena started the game stronger and run the ball at ‘Skins, who were being made to work hard, and went 3 – 0 up when ‘Skins conceded a soft […]
At a cold, wet Limavady on Saturday, Coleraine won and secured a bonus point in the local league derby match. The visitors recovered from a first minute shock which saw Limavady cross the line for five points straight from the off. Thereafter Coleraine were dominant and the final score of 5-37 was enough to claim […]
3rd XV vs CIYMS (7 – 7) Junior League Prior to kick off the teams observed one minute’s silence in memory of past President Pat Nelson. Two evenly matched teams played out a seven all draw. One penalty try each. As an experienced CI observer commented in the final quarter, “This game has been dominated […]