The lady who did the drape pleated curtains turned the clubhouse function room into a palace! By the time we arrived the ball was in full swing with a superb band the BRAZIL BAND and the whole club was celebrating another great season. Congratulations to the I & II XV on league victory and promotion […]
The Carrick Sevens started life in 1973 with Instonians winning the first 3 years, obviously over the decades the event has grown and skills levels improved as Sevens rugby took hold in Ulster and with this the Carrick Rugby Club improved the event making different classes to compete in but the Pinnacle event is the […]
The 41st Guinness Carrick Sevens took place over the week-end of 3rd – 5th May at Tom Simms Memorial Park with, as last year, over forty teams competing. While the cross-channel entry was again smaller than in earlier years, there were four Scottish and two English teams and the Ulster Fijian community again entered three […]
Ulster Juniors Ulster Juniors played the second game of the inter provincial campaign in Coleraine last Saturday when they took on their Munster counterparts. Both sides were unbeaten after Round One but it was the Munster men who ended victorious pulling away to a 29-9 win. Ulster were unfortunate to have been without their scrum-half […]
On Sunday 5th May, the Manvik Qualifying Sevens and the Abbey Insurance Ladies 10’s were both keenly contested affairs. In the Ladies competition, the semi-finals brought victory for defending Champions Queen’s and five times winners Cooke. In the final, Cooke started well and scored the first try but, as the game wore on, Queen’s gained […]
The Manvik Qualifying competition was dominated by defending champions CIYMS and Bangor in the pool stages although hosts Carrick, after a poor start against Bangor in their pool game came within one converted try of causing an upset and, had their handling and ball retention been better in the closing stages, they might well have […]
The Quigg Golden Open on Saturday 4th May was dominated from start to finish by the NGN 7s team organised to honour the memories of Noel, Graham and Nevin Spence. The team, based around Ballynahinch RFC for which Graham and Nevin played, ran in a feast of tries in pool victories over Hawick Linden, Jack […]
The Carrick Sevens Festival tournament began on Friday 3rd May with the now traditional Under 19s competition sponsored by Samurai. In the semi-finals of the Cup competition, defending champions Surrey Colts overcame Queen’s Barbarians while, in a somewhat tighter contest, Edinburgh College beat BRA Big Dogs, out-scoring their opponents by three tries to one. The […]