Height: 6 ft / Weight: 19 stone Appearances In AIL: 101 Clubs: Portadown, UUC, Dungannon Victories: Senior Cup Winners / Ulster League Winners with Dungannon When did rugby begin for you? It began aged 4 and a half at Portadown Minis. For some reason I went straight into the front row. Must have been a […]
Valuable Funds Raised For Ballynahinch RFC With a full house at Drumbo Park on Friday night Ballynahinch’s Corporate “Night out at the Dogs” was an outstanding success. The Club President and Council would like to thank all who attended the event, those who sponsored races or dogs for all their support in what was a […]
Queens made heavy weather in their latest AIL game and the three week lay-off was evident. Tries from Paul Karayiannis and Matthew Arneill, both converted by Ian Porter allowed the home side to lead 14 – 10 at the interval. Further tries by Paddy McGowan and Stuart Campbell produced a bonus point win but it […]
Ulster Rugby has named the Phoenix Ulster Rugby Academy players’ for 2009/10. These players’ will be available for Ulster’s Magners League games, and will play for the Ulster Ravens in the British and Irish Cup. The Phoenix Ulster Rugby Academy is now based at Newforge Country Club, where the Ulster Rugby Senior Squad train. The […]
This was a good performance from Dungannon. Despite early pressure from Buccaneers Dungannon were in charge from the first scrum and were well worth their bonus point. Incidentally this was our first winning bonus for eighteen months. The conditions were good considering the torrential rain of the previous day. It was Buccs who dominated the […]
City of Derry hosted the first Womens Rugby Inter Provincial Championship game to be played at their Judges Road Grounds on Saturday last. Leinster ladies completed outclassed their northern opponents in every facet of the game and in the process played some scintillating rugby that did credit to the sport. Their handling, running, set piece […]
gem has teamed up with Queen’s University Rugby Football Club to become its principal sponsor for the forthcoming season. This is the second time that gem has ventured into sports sponsorship in its nine-year history, having previously sponsored the Belfast Giants Ice Hockey team in their early days. “We hope that by sponsoring Queen’s RFC […]
Earlier this month, Cavan RFC played host to a two-day IRFU Ulster Branch Foundation coaching course (Stage 2 LTPD). 32 coaches took part over the two days, and such was the commitment from the participants, that many of them even braved the severe flooding that surrounded Cavan RFC on the first day of the course. […]