1st XV – Ards 30 v 21 Banbridge Ards enjoyed their first league win of the season when they hosted Banbridge in an Ulster Senior League fixture at Hamilton Park on Saturday. This was the result the home side had been hoping for to help kick-start their season with an excellent bonus point victory over […]
City of Derry Rugby Club continued their winning return to Senior Rugby when they defeated Dungannon at Stevenson Park in the Ulster Senior League on Wednesday night last. Bevan Lynch’s men scored three try’s which were impressive in their creation and clinical in their execution and marked this young team down as a force to […]
Clogher Valley 3 – Academy 3 Clogher Valley hosted newly promoted Academy for the first time in Qualyfying League One . Rather than the hoped – for early season appetiser, the fare served up by both teams was bland to say the least. It was the visitors who had the better of possession and territory […]
In the first ever Media V’s MLAs football match, which finished 2:2 at full time, the media eventually prevailed, winning 4:3 on penalties! It was a tight match with plenty of substitutes made and no sign of a goal until the 18th minute when media team manager, Stephen Beacom brought on the big guns in […]
Hot on the heels of International Duty with Ireland this summer Chris Henry was invited to collect his prize as URSC Player Of The Season. The prize, a beautiful Edox watch, Swiss made, presented to Chris by the award sponsor McNeillys Jewellers The URSC award is the highlight of the Magners Ulster Rugby Awards and […]
Coach Brian McLaughlin has named a 27 man Ulster panel ahead of announcing his starting XV and replacements for this Friday’s match against Edinburgh at Ravenhill (ko 8.05pm) later this week. With two wins from two in the League to date, Ulster will be looking to consolidate their good start to the season but following […]
Instonians Under 19’s registered an excellent 20-14 away win at Ards on Saturday, 11 September. Playing with the wind and a heavy rain in their favour it was not surprising that Ards exerted to the early pressure. They were wide with two penalty kicks from wide out before they scored from a lineout and drive […]
Holywood 1st XV got their league campaign underway last Saturday when they entertained Randalstown at Holywood. Both sides had put a lot of work into their respective pre-season training and with the weather set to be fine and sunny the good crowd settled back to enjoy what turned out to be a fascinating duel. Randalstown […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV got their League campaign off to a good start at Woodlawn on Saturday 11 September with a comfortable 22 points to 6 victory over Lisburn. Although missing a number of regulars, Carrick always looked the stronger side, holding the visitors to a single penalty when they had the advantage of […]