A glorious day for rugby and both teams were up for it -unfortunately for YMCA they lost a player to injury after only 5 minutes. The teams traded scores in the first half and YMCA held a narrow lead until a try took Letterkenny ahead . YMCA responded and scored again and the game became […]
After a poor start to the season, the Carrick 2nd XV have now won three of their last four games, beating Cooke II- the team that pipped them to the title last season-by 31 points to 3 at Woodlawn on Saturday 30 October. Carrick dominated the line-out, thanks to Terry McCracken and Chris Ferris, and […]
A nail biting finish to what was a good game. We noticed some amazing Ulster players coming through and also missed some players away for Ireland duty in the Guinness autumn Internationals. Looking forward to the next games for Ulster and the Ulster Players playing for Ireland. Well done to Congratulations to Rory Best, Isaac […]
In what was billed as the top game of the day in Ulster, both teams lived up to the occasion, playing an open and exciting game of running rugby. The Hinch side took the field minus the services of Adam D’Arcy, Nevin Spence, Ian Whitten, Paddy McAllister and Willie Faloon who all played for Ulster […]
After a week of rain the Newry pitch held up well under pressure from two heavy packs. Newry kicked off playing towards the clubhouse. Good pressure from the Newry back row lead to Holywood errors. Both teams where guilty of sloppy kicking not capitalising on penalty’s. Captain Connor Marshall drove the attacking side back well […]
BALLYMENA (2XV) 20 – 19 PORTADOWN After the euphoria of last weekends derby win against Armagh, it was always going to be a struggle for Portadown to reach the same intensity against a committed Ballymena 2’s outfit. In the opening twenty minutes however the Ports dominated territory and possession, helped in no small part by […]
Armagh approached this game with a degree of uncertainty for after their resounding home defeat by Portadown the previous week the team were resolute that a special performance was required. The memories of last year’s final in Athlone were still fresh in the minds of the team. To have come back in the second half […]
Civil Service arrived at Newforge, for the second of the three scheduled matches against PSNI this season, short of a number of first team regulars after injuries in the Lurgan Game. With Chris Summers, Chris Davey, Andrew “Boney” Sloan, Ben Scott and Johnny Bradshaw all missing through injury Jonny Wilson was drafted into the side […]
With all schools enjoying a half term break there were fewer than usual fixtures involving schools in Ulster played on Saturday 30th October. However, a number of schools did play fixtures and some interesting games took place. [youtube jAFZjBXSnSk] [youtube _t8Et1bXJhI] Royal Belfast Academical Institution travelled to play a Royal School, Armagh team that lost […]
After covering the Banbridge Academy game in the morning we travelled the short distance to Banbridge rugby club to watch Ban I v Suttonians I and Ban III v Dungannon III. With schools playing in the morning and senior squads in the afternoons it makes for an excellent day out and we are looking forward […]