Once again the Mini Section of Ballymena Rugby Club has teamed up with McKillop’s SPAR on Frys Road. This year proprietor Eamon McKillop provided water bottles for the under 7, 8 and 9 age groups. SPAR Frys Road have also provided Beanie hats for the under 8’s which the club very gratefully received, finding that […]
A for sale sign has been positioned on the railings in front of Holywood RFC grounds. After recieving various emails and questions we decided to find out more. Both Holywood RFC and North Down Borough council submitted the following statements: “Council, working in partnership with Holywood Rugby Football and Cricket Club, recently instructed its agents […]
All the fixtures at Ards RFC are cancelled this weekend due to the death of their Coach Cois Beukes. Ards RFC are mourning the passing of their beloved friend and coach Cois. He passed away peacefully at home on Oct 29th 2010. A young man, husband and father, his coaching career had got of to […]
On Saturday the local boys entertained the visitors from Donegal Town in what was to be the first meeting between the two clubs at this level. Unfortunately the visitors only turned up with a compliment of 12 players and following a ruling on Tue last by the Ulster Branch YCC, which the referee was not […]
A tough day at the office for the 1st XV, but in the end beaten by a better team. We had our chances, with norman lindsay getting to within 2 metres of the YM line in our first serious move and a couple more chances were not taken. But the main problem was lack of […]
Donaghadee’s First XV are notorious for slow starting in almost every season – but not this year. After their ten-week unbeaten run in league and cup this season they went last Saturday to Ballymoney for what looked like their biggest test so far. Full of confidence from the series of good victories, the visitors threw […]
Not as great scoreline for Cooke. The first half was all Old Belevedere. One way traffic with tries, conversions, penalties. At the break Cooke re-grouped and came out in the second half determined to up their performance and put together the phases. Cooke did win the second half in fact they conceded no points. They […]
Clash of the Titans or A Bridge Too Far? By Ian McCleery Enniskillen U19s……0 Malone U19s………26 Oh why do we do it ? The commentators effusive praise or the report writers unrestrained enthusiasm and predictions of what more is to come or a coach overexaggerating a teams ability and “psyching” them up to the point […]
City of Derry Ladies travelled to Dublin on the second of three consecutive trips to Leinster in their AIL Division 2 League campaign, this time to play Trinity College Dublin. In a fiercely-contested encounter, City of Derry emerged the winners by 12 points to 10. Both packs became involved in hard fought loose play and […]
Civil Service(NI) RFC 2nd XV travel to Shawsbridge to take on newly formed Cooke RFC 4th XV. The video contains highlights of tries from Moore Holmes, Stewart Ferguson and Ryan Campbell as well as kicks from Moore and Neil Palmer. Civil Service 2nd XV 41 v 0 Cooke 4th XV Under sunny skies at Shawsbridge […]