London Irish will be playing Leicester Tigers at their annual St Patrick’s Party on Sunday March 25th. As well as the thrill of seeing a great game of rugby between two of the Premiership’s top clubs, London Irish have laid on a great day with no less than 4 live bands, a fancy dress competition, […]
Saturday saw Armagh entertain Dungannon at the Palace Grounds to play their eleventh game in the Ulster Senior League. By this stage Dungannon, with their unbeaten record, had secured the league title and were obviously keen to retain their unbeaten record. So far this season Armagh had won only four games from ten and, to […]
St Patrick’s day seems to have produced high quality rugby on this island only, and the spectacle served up by a Strabane side, full of confidence, was one of the best club displays this reporter has had the pleasure to witness. Strabane travelled down to derry aware that YM had last weekend beaten our title […]
Randalstown 2nds also made the trip to Monaghan on Saturday and came home with the points. Despite the score line ‘Town were made to fight all the way against a dogged Monaghan side who refused to lie down. With skipper Hyndman in inspirational form however, and a slick performance by the back line ‘Town were […]
Randalstown made the journey to Monaghan on Saturday knowing it was a must win situation to ensure they remained on track to finish top of Qualifying 3. The nerves told especially in the first half and they turned round 12 – 6 down to a determined Monaghan side who effectively thwarted all their attempts to […]
Carrick U15s welcomed the Northumbria champions Northern FC U15s to Tom Simms Memorial Park at the weekend for the first fixture ever between the two clubs. Northern is a crack touring side who had disposed of Instonians U15s before making the short journey down along the shore of Belfast Lough to Carrickfergus. With one tour […]
Donegal RFC U15s – 0 Carrickfergus RFC U15s – 89 Given the long journey to Donegal, positional & personnel changes & a less that perfect playing surface this was an exceptional score line in Carrick U15s quest for cup qualification. “Bus legs” were the order of the day both during the warm up & opening […]