Well done to Jordan. He won a hamper with a signed Ulster Rugby ball. Pictured above is Jordan and the U15 yeam at Malone Rugby club along with a very proud father Bill Wilson. InTouch was delighted to have the opportunity to run this competition in conjunction with www.christmashampersireland.com & www.fruitbasketsireland.com. Congratulations to the other […]
Old Crescent 7 Belfast Harlequins 14 (Heaney 3p, Gillespie 1t) Quins arrived at Rosbrien for the re-arranged AIL match, and saw the pitch in exceptionally good condition, considering the previous day’s snow-laden blizzards. On paper, Quins put out their strongest team so far this season. Neil McCombe and Niall O’Connor made rare appearances, while Quins […]
Winner of first of this season’s Vodafone Try Harder Rugby Awards for Schools announced Jamie Adair, a student at Foyle & Londonderry College, is the recipient of the first of this season’s Vodafone Try Harder Rugby Awards for Schools. Unusually, it was not Jamie’s playing endeavours on the rugby pitch which persuaded the Award judges […]
Ards 2nds, 3rds and U17s, all fell foul of the weather on Saturday as games were cancelled right across the province due to frozen pitches. The 1st XV and Minis, only just managed to get through their games on the day, with yet more head scratching for the beleaguered fixture secretaries, as they try to […]
All Carrick’s games scheduled for Saturday 8 January were postponed because of the weather conditions. However, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd XVs did manage to get in a training session on Saturday afternoon. Fixtures for Saturday 15 January are: 1st XV vs BHSFP,away 2nd XV vs Ballyclare II,home 3rd XV no match 4th XV vs […]
City of Derry Rugby Club travelled to Dublin on Saturday last to play Seapoint who were sitting a point behind them in the league in third position in what promised to be the game of the day in All Ireland League Division 3. Derry came away with a narrow loss with the game living up […]
Despite the fact that all the Northern Bank Ulster Schools’ Cup Round 2 games, scheduled for Saturday 8th January, had to be postponed due to frozen pitches, a number of schools managed to get games played in the week leading up to Saturday 8th January. Despite the frozen conditions affecting rugby in most of the […]
Spectators arriving slightly late at Hamilton Park for the AIL game between Ards and Rainey Old Boys would have been rubbing their eyes in disbelief.The scoreboard had Ards 12-0 ahead and less than three minutes had elapsed.The visitors clawed their way back into the game to nose ahead before half-time and went from strength to […]
Last Friday night was the Annual President`s Dinner at Ballyclare Rugby Club and was the best attended ever with ninety-six members and guests present. Ian Morrow was on hand to welcome everyone to what is the best function of the season.The catering was in the capable hands of chef Jeff Baird who is Ian`s son […]
We arrived on a freezing early January morning to the sight of a large crowd of supporters who had gathered to shake off the January Blues and enjoy a game of rugby at a high level. What a better way to spend a few hours on a Saturday than a trip to Donaghadee or CI […]