This game was not as straightforward as Instonians might have hoped. They faced a very determined Rainey side that gave them plenty to think about. Instonians got off to a perfect start when their captain Stephen Douglas finished an early attack by running round behind the posts for a try converted by Nick Finlay. At […]
The Ards rugby fraternity was plunged into mourning late on Thursday night, when news broke of the untimely passing of our good friend and head coach Cois Beukes. Cois had been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer in December 2009 and underwent major surgery to have a huge tumour removed from his […]
NZ Meads Cup Poverty Bay 45pts, Thames Valley 18pts LONDONDERRY, or Derry, is Northern Ireland’s second-largest city, with a population of about 100,000. It is also the place where the Battle of the Bogside took place from August 12 to 14, 1969. Fighting between Roman Catholics and the Royal Ulster Constabulary erupted in what is […]
Despite the fact that all schools are enjoying their half term break there are still a number of games involving schools in Ulster scheduled for Saturday 30th October. The Royal Belfast Academical Institution team stole the headlines last weekend with their 23-18 win against their Belfast rivals, Methodist College. The Belfast Inst team will head […]
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First things first – Superb food! We arrived at Billy Andy’s to meet Penny & Willie John McBride who had kindly agreed to carry out a review of the restaurant. Richard Hunter the owner greeted us and immediately the rugby memories began to flow. In fact, Richard played against Willie John in the senior cup […]
Each month for Intouch Rugby Stephen Whalley of the Whalley Gallery will be producing a painting capturing on canvas some the most exciting moments in grass roots rugby in Ulster. Our breif: To pick one game per month that InTouch Rugby has covered and produce a painting from the images captured on the site. We […]
The Corus sponsored Lisburn took another positive step up the Qualifying League at Blaris last Saturday when they took four valuable league points against visitors Ballyclare. This was a match that Lisburn knew they would have to work very hard for as the previous week the ‘Clare team had given Division 1 high flyers Cooke […]
Despite the poor weather the Civil Service 2nd XV took to the pitch at Stormont determined to extend their unbeaten run and continue the scintilating try scoring form that had proved too much for Cooke 4’s the previous Saturday. Lots of photos here of Service v Ophir CLICK HERE thanks to Civil Service Rugby For […]
The Ulster Squad from which the starting XV and replacements for this weekend’s match against Munster will be selected has been named. Ulster take on League leaders Munster at Ravenhill at this Friday (29th October) at 7.05pm With five players in camp with Ireland ahead of the start of the Autumn International Series and a […]