On Saturday morning the honorary Club secretary, Bill Jennings, was refereeing a school game of rugby at Carrickfergus when, without warning, he died suddenly on the pitch. Bill originated from Connemara and then spent his youth in Manchester. He returned to Ireland to teach in Saint Patrick’s Grammar School in Armagh. Bill’s rugby career in […]
A Determined Performance From Clogher Valley U15s Clogher Valley’s under 15 side, set out determined to improve on their previous outing against Armagh 2 weeks ago. From the outset the pack controlled play and showed Monaghan who was the dominant team. With the opening try coming from a typical David McConnell run from the half […]
Civil Service (NI) RFC 1st XV unlucky to lose to Holywood in close match Civil Service entertained Holywood in the second match of the Gordon West Cup. Having lost our narrowly in the first match to PSNI, and win was vital to keep alive chances of qualifying into the knock out stages. Service’s preparations weren’t […]
Ballina’s second XV hosted a team from Belfast Harlequins last Saturday in what proved to be a highly entertaining match which was well contested by both sides. The home team got off to the best possible start when they scored from the kick off. They maintained control of the ball and moved it wide to […]
Ballymoney II 37 v Enniskillen II 3 Enniskillen Seconds made the long journey to Ballymoney last Saturday and despite putting in a lot of effort returned home pointless having been defeated by a very accomplished home team. ‘Skins had early pressure but could’nt make it count and the hosts opened the scoring and followed it […]
In what spectators called a great advertisement for womens rugby – Enniskillen narrowly edged out Belfast Harlequins 22 – 20 in their return to AIL rugby. The match, touted to be the clash of the round, saw Enniskillen come out hard in the first 20 minutes scoring 2 quick tries to Marcella McGovern and Eimear […]
Last Saturday saw Holywood make the short journey to Stormont to face Civil Service in the next of their Gordon West Cup round robin matches. The travelling supporters weren’t to be disappointed when Holywood ran out victors by 25 – 33. Holywood kicked off into the face of a good breeze on a perfect pitch […]
The pairing of Lisburn with Dungannon in last week’s Junior Cup match evoked memories of the1950s when these two clubs played each other for the “Lisgannon Cup”. This was basically a social event, and could have been termed “the First of the Summer Wine”, but played in a very competitive spirit nonetheless. It came about […]
Cooke too strong for Academy Cooke kicked off in this the first round of the Millar McCall Wylie Junior Cup against recently promoted Academy. Most of the play in the first 10 mins saw Cooke testing out the Academy defensive line and from a quick tap penalty 5mts out, McCordick rode through two tacklers to […]
Larne 2nds continued their league campaign on Saturday when they faced the challenge of Malone 3rds at the Glynn. Larne have started this season with two wins and were looking to make it three in a row. There were a number of changes to the team with numerous players making their first starts of the […]