Ulster banished the memories of their recent Heineken Cup disappointment tonight at Ravenhill with an assured four-try victory over the Newport Gwent Dragons, which elevates them back to the top of the RaboDirect Pro12 with two matches remaining. Textbook goal-kicking from Ruan Pienaar supplemented tries from Tommy Bowe, Stuart Olding, Darren Cave and Paul Marshall […]
IRUPA, the representative body for Irish rugby players, have announced that their annual Young Player Of The Year award is to be renamed in honour of Nevin Spence. From 2013, the IRUPA Young Player of the Year award will be renamed the Nevin Spence Young Player of the Year in memory of the Ulster centre……. […]
It was a day of mixed fortunes for Randalstown. At Neillsbrook the U15s and U13s secured their places in the respective finals of the competitions they are involved in while the U17s were narrowly defeated by a strong Monaghan outfit. The Under 15s will now face Carrick at Ravenhill on 4th May. Later in the […]
Super day at Hamilton Park! Ards 1st XV 17 – Sunday’s Well 14 Ards 3rd XV 20 – Randalstown 15 What a day at Hamilton Park on Saturday…….the pre match lunch was full to capacity with club sponsors, The Stove Yard, CITRIX Bytemobile, PRG Recovery and Romas all taking tables. In addition to the sponsors, […]
Tweed, Benson and Johnston step aside; Porter, Flynn and Young step in! In January current Head Coach Mervyn Tweed and Team Manager Robin Johnston indicated their intention of stepping aside at the end of the current season. Mervyn and Robin have been involved in these roles on 2 occasions over the last 12 years, the […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV were well beaten by Enniskillen in their re-arranged League match at Tom Simms Memorial Park on Saturday 13th April, going down by 48 points to 20. With seven 1st XV squad members not available, Carrick were always going to find it difficult against the team sitting third in the League […]
Armagh played their final fixture of the 2012-13 season when they entertained Connemara on the Palace Grounds on Saturday afternoon. Having lost out to Ards & Rainey in their last two League games Armagh had dropped from a respectable fourth spot down to a seventh position! Connemara, however, had won only four league points all […]