Rugby is more than a game at Londonderry YMCA. On Saturday YMCA President Gordon McSparron hosted a group of Allicadoos from Lisburn rugby club. They were taken on a tour of the Cathedral and the City walls by Ian Bartlett and Gordon and for some this was there first ever visit to the City. The […]
After a poor start to the season, the Carrick 2nd XV have now won three of their last four games, beating Cooke II- the team that pipped them to the title last season-by 31 points to 3 at Woodlawn on Saturday 30 October. Carrick dominated the line-out, thanks to Terry McCracken and Chris Ferris, and […]
In what was billed as the top game of the day in Ulster, both teams lived up to the occasion, playing an open and exciting game of running rugby. The Hinch side took the field minus the services of Adam D’Arcy, Nevin Spence, Ian Whitten, Paddy McAllister and Willie Faloon who all played for Ulster […]
After a week of rain the Newry pitch held up well under pressure from two heavy packs. Newry kicked off playing towards the clubhouse. Good pressure from the Newry back row lead to Holywood errors. Both teams where guilty of sloppy kicking not capitalising on penalty’s. Captain Connor Marshall drove the attacking side back well […]
Armagh approached this game with a degree of uncertainty for after their resounding home defeat by Portadown the previous week the team were resolute that a special performance was required. The memories of last year’s final in Athlone were still fresh in the minds of the team. To have come back in the second half […]
Civil Service arrived at Newforge, for the second of the three scheduled matches against PSNI this season, short of a number of first team regulars after injuries in the Lurgan Game. With Chris Summers, Chris Davey, Andrew “Boney” Sloan, Ben Scott and Johnny Bradshaw all missing through injury Jonny Wilson was drafted into the side […]
After covering the Banbridge Academy game in the morning we travelled the short distance to Banbridge rugby club to watch Ban I v Suttonians I and Ban III v Dungannon III. With schools playing in the morning and senior squads in the afternoons it makes for an excellent day out and we are looking forward […]
UUC take trip down memory lane! This weekend The University of Ulster Coleraine Rugby Team, travelled to Grosvenor RFC for a particularly poignant game. Both sides were eager for the win, Grosvenor wanting to get revenge for the league defeat in 2008/2009. However it was UUC who took the spoils gaining a bonus point win […]
After a very wet Thursday and Saturday last week, the Saturday turned out nice again for the rugby football game against Instonians 4. The referee, players of both sides and all the spectators at Donaghadee’s Donaldson Park stood in silence as a token of respect for the loss of a former player from both clubs […]