Paul Jenkins – coach of the Invictus Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby team and South Wales Pirates – has been rewarded for his career as a Wheelchair Rugby Coach. A former Welsh Guards Instructor, Jenkins had a motorbike crash after he left the military, leaving him tetraplegic. In 1990 he took up wheelchair rugby and quickly […]
Munster Rugby are please to announce a new three year partnership with Marks & Spencer, the major multinational retailer with 17 stores in Ireland, four of which are in Munster. The partnership will see Marks & Spencer become sponsors of Munster’s Community Rugby programme. The Marks & Spencer Munster Community Rugby programme is the very […]
10 December 2014; Special Olympics Leinster are one of Leinster Rugby’s charity partners for 2014/15 and as part of the association they nominated Daniel Dunne as a mascot for the Champions Cup game against Harlequins this Saturday in the Aviva Stadium. Leinster Rugby players Martin Moore and Dominic Ryan surprised Daniel Dunne (11) from Ballinamere […]
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 […]
Image Credit BBC NI. Won by Ballynahinch RFC & contested superbly by Malone RFC this years First Trust SNR Cup final was a fantastic evening fit for all the family. The winners Ballynahinch RFC mens I XV now progress to the All Ireland Bateman Cup Semi Finals where they will play some of the finest […]
Scores Sequence First Half Scores penalty for malone on hinch 22, 3-0 to malone (Josh Pentland TBC) Jack McMurtry try, converted by Josh Pentland (10-0 to Malone) Stephen McAuley try for Hinch converted by Reaney 10-7 34 mins played The First Trust Senior Cup half time score was Malone 10 Hinch 7 Second Half Scores Try […]
Ballynahinch (15-9): Stephen McAuley; David Nicholson, Stuart Morrow, Richard Reaney, Ross Adair; Harry McAleese (capt), Aaron Cairns; (1-8): Jonny Simpson, Jonny Murphy, Stuart Orr, James Simpson, Jonny Madden, David McGuigan, Paul Pritchard, Mike Graham; Replacements: Craig Trenier, Conor Pyper, Josh Donaldson, James McBriar, Jordan Grattan. Malone (15-9): Andy Bryans; Michael Barker, Nathan Browne, Kieran Joyce, […]
World Rugby has announced the match official appointments for the RBS Six Nations 2015, which gets underway in February. Appointments were made by the World Rugby Match Official Selection Committee at its meeting in Dublin last week and follow a detailed review of recent performances during the November internationals. The championship opener between Wales 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 […]