It was the second round of the HSBC Sevens World Series in Dubai this weekend, and it was a tournament full of upsets and surprises with Samoa emerging the eventual winners, beating New Zealand in the Cup Final. From a Great Britain perspective, England lost to Portugal on the opening day but came back to […]
Ulster will go in search of their 50th Heineken Cup win when they face Northampton Saints in Friday’s crucial Pool 4 clash at Franklin’s Gardens (kick off 8.00pm). Head coach Mark Anscombe has added Ruan Pienaar, Chris Henry and Paddy Wallace to his 27 man preliminary squad as they prepare for the first versus second […]
“Malone Women/Vixens RFC would like to congratulate our very own Lauren Maginnes who has recently been selected for the Irish Exiles and has played both on Saturday (50mins) and started today, Sunday! Lauren is one of the original Malone girls from back in 2007. When she joined she had never played the sport before but […]
Ballyshannon travelled with a panel of 14 players but kept their heads right from the start and fought hard and had accounted for three tries in the opening ten minutes. Colm Doyle showed great pace and strength breaking three tackles to score under the posts, so after the kick off the ball was brought on […]
On Saturday Cavan U13’s came to visit, the game started with Cavan kicking a penalty over to make it 3-0, but Monaghan pounced back quickly by scoring two tries in quick succession, both scored and converted by Jamie Agnew to make it 14-3. Cavan scored another penalty then to make it 14-6. Monaghan started scoring […]
Seahorses U19’s shaded in friendly against Belfast High School 1st XV Belfast High Schools, 28 – Seahorses U91, 25 This friendly was played under floodlights on Friday 30 November at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown. It was a very cold night but conditions were generally good for what proved to be a close and entertaining […]