The lady who did the drape pleated curtains turned the clubhouse function room into a palace! By the time we arrived the ball was in full swing with a superb band the BRAZIL BAND and the whole club was celebrating another great season. Congratulations to the I & II XV on league victory and promotion […]
The Carrick Sevens started life in 1973 with Instonians winning the first 3 years, obviously over the decades the event has grown and skills levels improved as Sevens rugby took hold in Ulster and with this the Carrick Rugby Club improved the event making different classes to compete in but the Pinnacle event is the […]
The 41st Guinness Carrick Sevens took place over the week-end of 3rd – 5th May at Tom Simms Memorial Park with, as last year, over forty teams competing. While the cross-channel entry was again smaller than in earlier years, there were four Scottish and two English teams and the Ulster Fijian community again entered three […]
Following the announcement of the 2013 British & Irish Lions squad to tour Australia this June and July, the latest edition of HSBC’s Lions Monthly is now available for fans and media around the world. In this latest edition, there is a summary of all the recent news and views in the build-up to the […]
Six of the 24 British & Irish Lions selected by Warren Gatland to tour Hong Kong and Australia later this month have earned places in the 2013 RaboDirect PRO12 Dream Team. The two youngest members of the 125thanniversary tour party, Glasgow Warriors full back Stuart Hogg and Scarlets wing George North, join Scarlets centre Jonathan […]
South Africa win Emirates Airline Glasgow Sevens – New Zealand clinch HSBC Sevens World Series 2012/13 – Marriott London Sevens hosts England finish third – Glasgow silverware for USA, Australia, France South Africa won their third Cup title of the 2012/13 HSBC Sevens World Series, beating New Zealand 28-21 to clinch the Emirates Airline Glasgow […]
After 132 games over 22 rounds just four of the twelve participating teams now go forward to the knockout phase in the quest to find the RaboDirect PRO12 champions of 2012/13. All bar one of them, Scarlets, have competed in the Play-Offs before, although the Llanelli based team did get their name on the trophy […]
Ulster fullback, Jared Payne, has signed a new three-year deal with the club that will see him remain at Ravenhill until at least the summer of 2016. Payne, who is 27, was today selected in the Barbarians squad to face England and the British and Irish Lions. He joined Ulster from the Auckland Blues two […]
Ulster Juniors Ulster Juniors played the second game of the inter provincial campaign in Coleraine last Saturday when they took on their Munster counterparts. Both sides were unbeaten after Round One but it was the Munster men who ended victorious pulling away to a 29-9 win. Ulster were unfortunate to have been without their scrum-half […]