Saturday saw Dungannon rfc ‘s Stevenson Park ground host a fundraising carnival which was a brilliant success. The ground was buzzing with activity. The main event being the Marathon fun run relay, which all of the club and the wider Dungannon community enthusiastically participated in. From the mini rugby boys and girls running with their […]
What a fantastic day everyone had at the annual Ophir Sevens on 21st august 2010! It was definitely the rugby that astounded everyone, but the beautiful sunny weather did add to the sheer enjoyment that Antrim RFC, Lisburn & Lisburn B RFC, Randalstown RFC, Ophir & Ophir B RFC, Queens RFC & Ballyclare RFC had […]
Ophir RFC Hosted their Annual 7-a-side Youth Tournament on Friday the 20th August from 6.30pm – 9pm. The evening was brilliant with good light and the standard of the rugby was excellent! Malone, Carrick, Larne, Ballyclare, Instonians, Ophir, Ballymena and Randalstown competed in two sections. The high standard of rugby bodes well for the future […]
Pictured: City of Derry Captain Sam McAuley presenting a Tie to Tralee Rugby Club President. City of Derry continued their pre season preparations with a short tour to Munster last weekend. They defeated Thomond in Limerick on Friday night in convincing style when they scored five trys and shocked the locals who were unbeaten at […]
Seniors Main Picture: Rory Eaves gets the ball away. The Conditioning games on Saturday went extremely well with all the players getting a good run out as they tried to impress the coach and stake a claim for all the vacant berths in the various teams. To help further boost their chances, both the 1st […]
Allister Brown, a 33-year engineer from Lisburn has been chosen to represent Northern Ireland in the international finals of a Bushmills Irish Whiskey® competition that has attracted the interest of tens of thousands of people around the globe. Allister will be competing for his chance of glory in the ‘Make it at Bushmills’ finals later […]
PLAYER: ALAN WHITTEN CLUB: INSTONIANS RFC POSITION: PROP HEIGHT: 6ft 4 WEIGHT: 111kgs 6 Week Training Blog – Predict The Results Competition Its been a roller-coaster and its now official, Alan has destroyed the improvement goals he and Claire Withers set almost 6 weeks ago. He is stronger and leaner! Predict How Much? In week […]
The Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle Church is est in Belfast for 50 years. The Senior Pastor is Pastor James McConnell, who was born in East Belfast. Whitewell as a church has 3,500 people attending each Sunday across two services. Five years ago to the exact same weekend at the Odyssey arena the Church held the same […]
Johann Muller will captain an Ulster side against Harlequins this weekend at The Stoop which shows nine changes to the starting line-up from the side which were defeated by Bath last weekend at Ravenhill as Ulster Coach Brian McLaughlin uses the pre-season matches to rotate his squad. Amongst the backs, only the centre partnership of […]
After being defeated by Instonians this resurgent Ulster U20 side were very good indeed! I don’t know how many times they stole ball from Hinch. The pace of their counter rucking was like lightning. Bodes well for next weeks games August 23 (mon) Ulster v Yorkshire 1.00pm @ Campbell College & August 25 (weds) Ulster […]