Rory Best has been ruled out of contention, having not fully recovered from a rib injury sustained last weekend, while BJ Botha who injured ligaments in his elbow is also unavailable. Best is replaced at hooker by Nigel Brady, while Declan Fitzpatrick replaces Botha. Click Here For BBC Sport THE RUCK Video The match will […]
The Ulster Ravens travel to play London Welsh at Old Deer Park this Saturday in the British & Irish Cup competition looking to bounce back from a 20—25 defeat last weekend to Neath and Belfast’s Shaws’ Bridge venue. Ulster’s youngsters led 17-3 at the half-time break but were overpowered in the second half by a […]
Andrew Newberry a Sports Therapist and member of the Society of Sports Therapists and of The British Association of Sports & Exercise Scientist reports: As we come into the meat of season players will be starting to see the fruits of the labour from the preseason and on-going fitness programs with their clubs and with […]
Links to pictures from the victory over Biarritz below. Also an interview with Rory Best prior to Aironi from UTV. Click here for video of Rory Best interviewed yesterday commenting on ribs injury – includes a UTV preview of the Aironi game Click here for pictures from Rugby Picture Click here for pictures from BBC […]
Northern Bank Medallion Shield Round 3 Matches to be played on or before Sat 29th Jan Bangor G.S. v Larne G.S. C.A.I. v Rainey Endowed School B’Mena Academy v Regent House B’Clare H.S. v Dromore H.S. St Columbs Coll/Strabane G.S./Cambridge House v Belfast H.S. Carrick G.S./Dalriada v Grosvenor G.S. R.S.D. v Down H.S. Wellington Coll […]
Tuesday nights round two draw of the Powerade Towns’ Cup handed Lurgan a home local derby against neighbours and Kukri Qualifying section one side Dromore, Writes Paddy Allen. Lurgan’s wish of a home draw came true having received a bye in the opening round and they will look forward to the stiff test against a […]
Normal service resumed (eventually) following Freeze, thaw, burst pipes, too many pints, spuds, crisps and chocolates over the past 6 weeks or so since we had our last day our at Bangor. We tried and failed last week to play Cooke, so…..Take Two! This time in the League. We had a delay to our start, […]
The Irish Rugby Union Players Association (IRUPA) in conjunction with Grafton Employment Group and University of Ulster, have today launched the ‘Ulster Rugby Mean Business’ mentoring programme which aims to support players in securing a future career when their rugby playing days are over. As part of the ‘Ulster Rugby Mean Business’ mentoring programme, University […]
We arrived at Belfast Harlequins on Sunday past to see City Of Derry Ladies play Belfast Harlequins Ladies. Always a massive fixture for these clubs the game was a little different this time as 3 Current South African Ladies internationals were playing. Below are interviews with Mandisa (South African Captain) & Benjy Van Der Byl […]