Eddie (a CIYMS man then A Donaghadee man) comments in the clip below on running out for Ireland in front of 50,000 spectators having played for CIYMS the weekend before in front of 150 people! What memories to have and it is an honour for InTouch to bring you a few words from the man […]
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 […]
Lisburn 17 – Bangor 20 The Corus sponsored Lisburn 1st XV were back at Blaris last Saturday after an eight week lay-off due to frozen pitches and holiday season breaks. The rustiness showed as despite scoring three good tries they found themselves at the wrong end of a Town’s Cup scoreline against old foes Bangor. […]
Following the Biarritz win earlier in the day the guys headed out for dinner to celebrate Robbie Diacks forthcoming wedding. He will be away for a few weeks and his team mates organised a bite to eat at La Boca restaurant in Belfast to celebrate. Not 2 hours earlier of course they had just defeated […]
The Ulster Coaching Staff have named a 32 man squad from which the starting XV and replacements for Ulster’s final Heineken Cup pool match against Aironi at the Stadio Zaffanella will be selected. Missing from the squad is prop BJ Botha who sustained an elbow injury during the second half of last Saturday’s match however […]