Belfast High School Former Pupils travelled to Civil Service to play a friendly on a wet and windy Saturday afternoon at Stormont. High School won a close match 19v13 scoring 3 tries against Services converted try and 2 penalties. It was a game organised by the new Civil Service coaching team of Marty McGuigan and […]
1st XV – In a highly competitive game Ards started stronger than their more illustrious opponents and should have taken the lead after 12 minutes when they failed to convert a penalty, following a Ballymena infringement. Ballymena claimed the first points after 17 minutes, when, against the run of play Fisher converted a penalty, following […]
At two o’clock last Saturday Donaghadee coach Jimmie McCoy was still facing selection problems for his First XV’s opening game of the league season. This had been because of a scarcely-believable series of cry-offs and late failures of fitness tests. Thursday’s training session had begun with the knowledge that Dougie Gordon, Billy Allen, Gareth Gordon […]
Colin Atkinson returns to ARMAGH rugby: Colin Atkinson returns to the Palace grounds this season to assist Coach Andy Hughes. Colin previously played for Armagh for two seasons 1999/01. He moved into All-Ireland senior rugby playing for Ballynahinch and Belfast Harlequins where he captained the side for three successive seasons. Colin has represented Ulster where […]
Ballyclare RFC 1st XV & 2nd XV played Coleraine RFC 1st XV & 2nd XV at The Cloughan on Saturday 28th August 2010. The 1st League games will take place this weekend and this game from last weekend represented a full training game for the teams in their preparations for various league and cup campaigns. […]
Tickets for The Rare Oul Times are now available. They can be purchased from the reception at Ferguson’s Irish Linen during the daytime, Fergusons Irish Linen 54 Scarva Road Banbridge Tel:028 4062 3491 or by contacting John Ewart in the evening on 07909 978505. Tickets can be purchased from the bar at Banbridge RFC during […]
The University of Ulster, Coleraine Rugby Club (UUC RFC), continued their pre-season preparations with a hard fought cup win at the City of Derry Rugby Club on Saturday. They entered the George Tee’s Cup for the fourth year in a row and won the tournament after four very competitive matches. UUC started their challenge with […]
Following their very successful end of year tour last season when they won the International Tournament hosted in Serbia by the Vojvodina Rugby Club, Lisburn Rugby Club continued their success into the new season by reaching the final of the Ophir Seven a side competition, held recently at Mallusk, where they were beaten by an […]