SALEM, OREGON USA – “Let’s just say, the Instonians, taught us a thing or two, or 93”, commented Mike Scott the head coach of the Willamette Rugby Football Club (WRFC) based out of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon USA. WRFC wrapped up its Ulster tour this spring with a 15-12 loss to the Instonians 3rd/4th […]
A great atmosphere, a variety of stalls offering a cornucopia of fabulous products, all enriched by the lovely smell and sites of a busy market from freshly brewed coffee, speciality meats, music from an excellent jazz band. Easily enjoy an entire morning there shopping and relaxing! Declan Fitzpatrick is here pictured enjoying soem of the […]
On the 26th June forty players, five staff and a physiotherapist embarked on a 3 week rugby tour to the Southern hemisphere, to play school teams in the greatest rugby playing nation in the world! Where were they from? Ballyclare High School of course the home of Ireland and Ulster Rugby legend Gary Longwell no […]
InTouch has teamed up with two local experts, Claire Withers – Personal Trainer – and Peter Baird – Complete Gyms Nutrition – to train an advanced level rugby athlete Alan Whitten. Required Outcome: After an intial consultation with Alan, Claire & Alan have identified a 25% increase in key specific areas, is the desired outcome! […]
In a break with established tradition the new chairman of the club is Vishal Chopra. The main difference is that Vishal has come to the fore through his involvement with the cricket section, rather than the more traditional route of the rugby section in the club. That is not an issue as far as Vishal […]
Ulster Rugby have announced details of three pre-season friendly fixtures which will take place this August. First up is a home tie against Bath at Ravenhill on Friday 13th August with a 7.30pm kick off. Ulster defeated Bath, who placed 4th in last season’s Premiership, twice last season in the Heineken Cup, 26-12 at Ravenhill […]
We were delighted to hear recently about a tour blog from Andrew Trimble (sent to John Dickson www.dicksondigital.com) while part of Irelands Antipodean Adventure and Thomond Park Babas game. We have reproduced some of them below below and you will take particular joy in the reaction of the Ulster boys on bumping into Xavier Rush, […]
Intouch are delighted to be covering this exciting 7s tournament taking place at Belfast Harlequins RFC on Sunday, August 29, 2010, 11:00am – 5:00pm. 10 Teams will battle it out for the honour of being the first ever winner. Womens Rugby is on the up in Ulster and with new teams forming every year the […]
Without a doubt the best game of Rugby League in Ulster this season. An exciting game throughout. Hard fought with the highest number of big hits we’ve seen, and all the skills. The Redskins were ahead until the closing stages of the game. Right from the first 10 minutes the Redskins enthusiasm, commitment to breaking […]