Ireland Head Coach Joe Schmidt has backed Ulster’s Darren Cave after the centre rang the former Leinster coach to explain his words were taken out of context in an interview. The Belfast Telegraph, under the heading My face doesn’t fit with Ireland, said that Cave was “fed up with being snubbed by Ireland – and […]
Saturday 7th December has been set aside as the IRFU Charitable Trust Day for all schools’ players in the Province. The players will be asked to donate a minimum of £1.00 to the Charitable Trust, a Trust that does an immense amount of work on behalf of players who have picked up a serious injury. […]
The girls from St. Paul’s High School are pictured at Ulster Rugby’s Tag Blitz at Newry RFC Newry Rugby Club played host to around sixty girls on Friday for a Tag Blitz involving three local schools. Our Lady’s Grammar School fielded two teams and they were joined by St. Mary’s High School and St. Paul’s […]
The 2013 Bangor Mini Rugby Floodlit Festival took place on Saturday evening at Upritchard Park, Bangor. On a dry, windless night, Primary 5 and 6 teams from Ballyclare, Ballymena, CIYMS, Cooke, Coleraine and Lisburn joined their hosts in playing a series of matches, under floodlights, over a three-hour period. ….. follow this link for the […]
Patrick Johnston, Phil McGurran and Gary Adams from the Errigle Inn join Ulster Rugby player Iain Henderson and his female counterparts Shirelle Wilson, Ashleigh Baxter and Collette Broome to launch the Errigle’s sponsorship of the Ulster Women’s rugby team. The Errigle Inn, one of Belfast’s best-known public houses, has confirmed that it will continue its […]
Five Primary Schools from across Belfast took part in a Tag Rugby Blitz at Hammer Community Complex on the Shankill road this week. The event, organised by Ulster Rugby Community Rugby Coach Alasdair McKee, was attended by North Belfast schools Glenwood PS, Blackmountain PS and Edenbrooke PS, with Avoniel PS (East Belfast) and St. John […]
Over recent weeks, Dane McGregor, University of Ulster Coleraine’s Rugby Participation Officer, has been running programmes within the university with the aim of starting a women’s rugby team……. for the full story follow this link http://www.ulsterrugby.com/domestic/news/latest/2013/11/uuc-start-up-female-rugby.aspx
Tom Court cuts to the chase. His biggest influence on the pitch? Critics and proving them wrong. ‘It’s been that way since I first started playing rugby,’ explains the Ulster prop from Australia, who qualifies for Ireland through his grandparents. ‘I was in the Queensland Reds academy in my mid-20s with 17 and 18-year-olds looking […]