This match was always going to be a match of attrition, Quins had lost heavily to Malone earlier in the season when they had gone down to 14 players and had a point to prove in this encounter. With a break in the Ulster Bank All Ireland League both sides had full strength sides to […]
After a flying start to the season Randalstown firsts hit the buffers on Saturday afternoon turning in a poor performance and suffering their 1st defeat. Randalstown took to the park in their brand new Power NI sponsored shirts today for a cup match that on paper should have seen them run out easy winners, but […]
On Saturday 22 October, the Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV drew 14 points apiece with Grosvenor at Tom Simms Memorial Park. This was a game Carrick could, and probably should, have won but they were not helped by persistent handling problems. In addition, the home side will feel that the referee did them no favours, letting […]
For the second consecutive Saturday Armagh made the trek to Rifle Park to play their neibours, Banbridge. This time it was the Ulster Senior Cup, Quarterfinal that drew the Armagh team to the wet, windy, environs of Banbridge. Armagh were still sore from the narrow defeat last Saturday when they played the wet & untidy […]
After last weeks win against Donegal 2s the students had a much tougher task of Strabane 2s at the Sam Logan Stadium. A close fought encounter saw the students come out 10-9 winners against Strabane. From the whistle it was obvious the game was going to be physical and that every point would count as […]
It could have been a cup final, the crowd thronged the clubhouse balcony, and the respective teams came with excellent attitude on both sides. Cooke matched them all the way and led for considersable periods and won the game, we managed to get 48 pictures from Intouch Rugby CLICK HERE and another 231 pictures from […]
After their long trip to Letterkenny last Saturday the Tata Steel sponsored First XV finally won their first game of the season with a valuable victory over the improving Donegal outfit. Having lost their first three games of the year by narrow margins, but picking up bonus points in each, Lisburn were keen to put […]
Awesome game by Malone, we can only say that Instonians who are very good found themselves playing a very good Malone side and we look forward to covering both sides. Malone were ecstatic at the cohesion, team workk and selfless graft of the individuals and team work – absolutely brilliant. Instonians will learn from this […]
Despite the bad weather of the past few weeks the pitch at Judges Road was in perfect condition. Dungannon kicked off in this 2nd XV league match. Although Derry cleared from the line out Dungannon secured the ball and the scrum half Gareth McGonigle cut through the Derry defence to score under the posts. Robin […]