Ireland were crowned FIRA-AER Under-18 European champions for the first time following an excellent 17-8 victory for Terry McMaster’s well-drilled Schools team over England. The Ireland side, sponsored by PwC, got on top in the opening half of Saturday’s final in Tarbes, with Blackrock College winger Conor McEllin crossing for a 26th minute try. Talismanic […]
London Irish achieved a remarkable consecutive promotion on Saturday when defeating London 1 North runners up Sidcup in an enthralling encounter at Sunbury. Played in glorious spring sunshine in front of a crowd approaching a thousand people including the loud and passionate Sidcup following who had travelled across South London to celebrate St Georges Day. […]
Pictured: Jordan Coghlan No 8 waits for scrum to engage The Ireland U19/U20 development squad continued to enhance the reputation of IRFU age grade teams playing recently in France with a hard fought, but well deserved, 7-7 draw against a much vaunted French U19 team. The game, played in Besancon in front of 8,000 supporters, […]
CLICK HERE FOR 100+ PICTURES FROM WWW.GLENOPHOTO.COM On Saturday Ballyclare 1st XV had to make six changes for the key clash at home to Donaghadee in Qualifying2. Unavailable were Steve Morrow,Ian Russell,Paul Morrow,Gary Clotworthy,Darren Montgomery and Graeme McKinstry. This meant several changes both positional and personnel had tobe made against a Dee side which fielded […]
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The Ireland Under-18 Schools team, sponsored by PwC, to play England U-18’s in the final of the FIRA/AER U-18 European Championship in Tarbes this Saturday has been named. Coach Terry McMaster has made five changes to the team from the side that won through 19-17 against tournament hosts France in the semi finals last weekend. […]
CICK HERE FOR 97 Pictures [youtube c3GvmjiWMhE] [youtube DLVED1m4G4E] NUTTY KRUST FLOODLIT TOURNAMENT 2011 Rainey 20 Omagh 19 Rainey emerged as winners from a cracking semi final tussle with Omagh in Thursday’s Nutty Krust semi final. In a match bristling with enterprising play by both sides the large crowd in attendance were kept on tenderhooks […]
It was a perfect evening for running rugby and both teams did their level best to entertain the vocal support that turned up at Ravenhill. There were four tries, four yellow cards and one red card in an action packed final worthy of the occasion. The Hinch dominated the early exchanges and kept the Armagh […]