City of Derry put in an assured performance to end ‘Dub hoodoo’. City of Derry RFC supporters, management and players can feel very satisfied with their weekends work as they achieved a rare win at ‘The Dub’ against Queens over the weekend. The inaccuracy and impatience of the previous encounter against Instonians was replaced by […]
The firsts make life difficult for themselves in the first home league fixture. The firsts made life difficult for themselves in the team’s first home league fixture against a determined CI side. The game commenced at a blistering pace which did not let up during the eighty minutes of play, exposing the fitness levels of […]
Civil Service (NI) RFC announce 1st XV and 2nd XV teams to play Lurgan and Malone 5s on Saturday 24th September. CLICK HERE FOR PICTURES from both games & Click Here for Video Clip Civil Service (NI) RFC 1st XV teamlist to play Lurgan & Malone on Saturday 24th September. 15 Simon Curry 14 Emmett […]
Hinch 10-11 Quins Quins take the spoils Ballynahinch v Belfast Harlequins 14-30 Ulster Championship League Saturday 24 September 2011 at Ballymacaran Park. Quins elected to play away from the Clubhouse against the, at times, stiff breeze and Sun. After 9 mins, against the elements, Quins led 3-0 from a Michael Heaney penalty, from the 22 […]
BHSFP started brightly and opened the scoring with a penalty by Stephen Heasley. After this strong offensive start BHSFP didn’t get their defence working with any cohesion and Holywood scored 2 tries through moving the ball wide. BHSFP struck back near the end of the half using their superior scrum to push the Holywood pack […]
September 17, 2011 Banbridge and Ards went into this Ulster League game both looking for their first win of the season. But it was clear from the opening exchanges why the North Down side had already shipped heavy defeats at the hands of Armagh (47-13) and Ballymena (71-3) as Bann began to run up the […]
With Ballymacarn Park bathed in sunshine and in perfect condition this top of the table Senior League clash should have been an exciting contest between the Division 1B clubs. Instead, the game was littered with poor skill levels, silly mistakes and bad decision making from both sides. The visitors from County Antrim, playing with the […]
For I XV Pictures CLICK HERE During the summer after 30 years of sporting a healthy moustache Ballymena Youth Rugby Coach, Tom Wiggins took the big decision to get the razor out. After some discussion around the Club Tom found that the players would gladly sponsor him to shave off his moustache for charity. The […]