The semi-tropical Donaghadee of fame and fable is no more. Last Saturday was to be the Donaghadee club’s big multi-fixture of the season with two teams from CIYMS coming through the palm treed entrance to Donaldson Park. One of these was to be a Qualifying League game between Donaghadee’s unbeaten Firsts and the Belmont club’s […]
Senior business executive to spearhead expansion Rugby League Ireland (RLI), the company responsible for the management and development of the game in Ireland, has appointed Gordon Matthews as General Manager. Mr Matthews (51), who takes up his new position immediately, is an experienced business executive and joins RLI from a senior management role at Kerry […]
Carrick RFC U15s completed a league double over their Malone RFC counterparts at Gibson Park on Wednesday night having defeated them on the previous Saturday at Woodlawn. The good relationship between these two clubs Youth Sections was illustrated once again when Carrick agreed to travel for a Wednesday night fixture to the Redsox stronghold in […]
Instonians won a hard fought league game against Larne at Shaw’s Bridge under floodlight on Wednesday night (15 th December). The first half was a scrappy affair with both sides struggling with the cold conditions and the long layoff because of the weather. At half time Instonians led by 9-6 through three Andrew Keane penalties […]
Because of the ongoing Arctic weather conditions which continue to sweep across the province, all rugby in Ulster was postponed last weekend which means yet more fixtures have to be rescheduled for everyone. Once the weather improves, mid-week games under lights will become the norm as clubs try to get their backlog cleared before the […]
Campbell College and Belfast Royal Academy played in a midweek fixture at Malone Rugby Club on Wednesday afternoon. The Campbell College team scored an unconverted try, early in the game, through Shane Moffett to give them a 5-0 lead. Rory Scholes extended that lead to 8-0 a few minutes later when he converted a penalty […]
Extended highlights video clip below incl interviews with supporters, players, coaches and clips of play – and Dungannon lifting the cup. All week we have been on tender hooks to wait and see if the Senior Cup final would be played, the weather fortunately held out until the final decision was taken on Thursday 16th […]