Height: 6 foot Weight: 17 stone 2lbs League: AIL 3 Club: Ards Honours & Victories: Won the U18s Cup. Youth Festival Of Rugby Cork U14s. To wear the Ards IXV jersey every Saturday. When did rugby begin for you? P6. Who are the best props you have played against? The big teams all have good […]
Four teams were in action this week at Ballyclare RFC. 2 at home winning in spectacular style and 2 away losing in fairly spectacular style. The home sides proved unstopable! Both 2’s against Clogher Valley 2’s and 4’s against Academy 3’s scoring almost at will. The two away sides on the other hand did not […]
Carrick’s 1st XV picked up their second League win with a bonus point victory over local rivals Belfast High School FP at Woodlawn on Saturday 9 October. On a near perfect day for rugby, the Maxol-sponsored Carrick side ran in five tries against three penalty goals to record a 27 points to 9 victory. While […]
The under 17s & under 15s recorded emphatic victories in Coleraine while the Under 19s, despite a glut of injuries early in the game, held on to narrowly defeat Larne. The 1sts came away with a win at Newry and the 3rds held Civil Service 2nds to a draw. Newry 1st XV 14 Randalstown 1st […]
In an amazing 2nd half Malone RFC came back from a massive 20 – 8 down to win the game 29-22! By all accounts this was one of the those amazing things that can happen when a team playing for each other get the legs pumping and delight their fans with an unstoppable team effort. […]
Instonians 1St XV had a useful win 31-23 over Munster team Nenagh Ormond at Shaw’s Bridge on Saturday 9th October. This was an AIL League 3 match and the Tipperary team had to make the long journey home empty handed. Playing against a strong breeze Instonians got off to a very encouraging start – scoring […]
Instonians U17’s made the trip down to Larne on a beautiful sunny day. It was as well that the kick-off had been put off to 12-30 pm because Instonians were asleep for the first ten minutes! Playing with a strong breeze and the sun in their favour Larne were able to exert some pressure. Inst […]
After disappointing results for both sides last week, Randalstown 3s arrived at Civil Service determined to avoid a repeat of the heavy defeat they had suffered to Grosvenor and Service were keen to correct the mistakes that had seen them undone against Carrick. This task was not made easier by the loss of deputy captains […]
The second xv suffered the first defeat of any Armagh team this season on Saturday afternoon when a strong Ballymoney side came to Armagh and went away with a deserved 14-12 win. Armagh had a strong side selected and had territorial advantage for almost the entire first half but couldn’t manage to take any advantage […]
Armagh made the long trek north to Balllymoney to play the third league game of their season. To date they have won all in front of them but there is a nagging feeling around the Palace grounds that we have not seen the best of this team yet! Last week they beat a newly promoted […]