A beautiful Sunday at The Pavilion Stormont home to Civil Service RFC saw the Ulster Tag Rugby teams battle it out for 1st place in a fun but also competitive series of games. The organisers did a sun dance in the morning and a wonderful sunny day followed. With lots of spectators and a good […]
Enniskillen rounded off their pre-season with a comfortable victory over the visitors from Tralee, scoring nine tries and conceding just one. At the request of the visitors the game was played as three periods of twenty-five minutes each and the scoring stated as early as the fifth minute when a lineout inside the visitors “22” […]
The Maxol sponsored Carrickfergus RFC 1st XV continued their preparations for the 2010/11 season, winning the Randalstown tournament on Saturday for the third time out of the last four years. They started slowly with a 3 all draw against Ballymoney but in the next 2 matches, they defeated the hosts 25pts to 3 pts, with […]
City of Derry Rugby Club marked their return to the Ulster Senior League after an absence of two years with an emphatic victory away to Banbridge on Saturday last. Derry scored eight try’s in total and were fourteen points in front with less that ten minutes gone. City of Derry Coach Bevan Lynch said after […]
A good day weather wise and even better for some excellent rugby and the spectacle of teams playing and preparing for the new season. Games kicked off at 1pm, with Randalstown haveing an excellent first game against Ballymena. Teams competing were: Grosvenor, Ophir, Carrick, Lurgan, Randalstown, Hollywood, Civil service, Ballymena and Bangor. Good flowing rugby […]
It was a bit of a try fest at Ballymacarn Park as the home side powered to an impressive 9 try to 3 victory over the Belfast students in the opening salvo of this seasons Ulster Senior League. After a fairly even start Harry McAleese opened the scoring for the Hinch in the 18th minute […]
BUSHMILLS VILLAGE, IRELAND: A 28-year old lifeguard from Svishtov Bulgaria has won a global Bushmills Irish Whiskey® competition with a prize described as ‘the whiskey lover’s ultimate dream’. Ivan Ivanov was chosen from finalists from nine countries as the winner of the Make it at Bushmills challenge at a gala dinner this evening (Thursday) in […]
The Ireland Deaf rugby team is in its infancy and needs new players urgently to compete in an international game against England in Belfast! This amazing intiative comes hot on the heels of several other countries froming their own deaf and hard of hearing teams. Wales deaf, England deaf, New Zealand deaf, Australia deaf, and […]
Week six and test day is upon us. As I expected Alan crushed all previous scores – 70% increase in 2 arm swing test; one arm shoulder press by 40%; clean & press sandbag by 35% So sport specific training works! Thats all you need to know. Train as you play, move within a full […]
Ards RFC Ladies Sixth training session was the location for InTouch Rugby’s latest snapshot of club rugby. The development of their rugby is happening due to themselves at a blistering pace. We caught up with Ross Reid their coach and he said, “The speed that we are moving at is being set by the players […]