From Thursday it was clear not every game was going ahead. But, on Saturday morning the sun rose and grounds men from across Ulster tested the pitches to find that while snow was lying, the ground ewas not frozen. For a a healthy number of fixtures it was – GAME ON. We travelled to Bangor […]
There were a number of midweek fixtures played prior to a full list of schools’ fixtures on Saturday 20th November. Cambridge House finally got a win, after a number of close defeats, when they played Portadown College. The Cambridge House team had been playing well without getting the reward they felt they deserved. Cambridge House […]
With all schools re opened after the half term break, there is a full list of games scheduled to take place on Saturday 6th November. Royal School, Dungannon will hope that their injury list will have been sorted out during the half term break as they prepare to host a young but confident Rainey Endowed […]
Northern Bank Ulster Schools’ Round Up Saturday 23rd October 2010 With the onset of the half term break for most schools, as well as Ireland U18 Schools’ and Ireland U19 Screening camps in Dublin, a number of the schools’ senior squads lost players for the games on Saturday 23rd October. Below includes pictures from Banbridge, […]
Despite the onset of a well-deserved half term holiday break for teachers and pupils there are still quite a number of rugby fixtures involving schools from Ulster scheduled to take place on Saturday 23rd October. The “Match of the Day” will be played at Osborne Park when Methodist College travel to play Royal Belfast Academical […]
Following on from last Friday’s excellent 20-15 victory over Munster in Cork, Ulster have made one change to their starting line up for the game against Leinster this Friday at Ravenhill (KO 5.00pm). Calum Thelfor, who came on as a replacement against Munster, starts at blindside wing-forward with Stephen Irvine dropping to the bench. There […]
Saturday 27th February Report and photography from John McMurtry. Friends School’s cup run ended in heartbreak in this quarter-final replay against Ballymena Academy. Leading 10 – 6 with time running out Friends were denied a trip to Ravenhill with a dramatic try from Ballymena’s No 8 Andrew with the final play of the match. Patterson […]
Friends School Lisburn served up another exciting game in this Northern Bank Schools Cup quarter-final against Ballymena Academy on Tuesday afternoon at Ballymena Rugby Club. Leading 11 – 3 going into the last quarter Friends looked the likely winners but a controversial yellow carding of Friends talismanic No. 8 David McGuigan allowed Academy to snatch […]
Saturday 6th February 2010 Friends School Lisburn staged a dramatic fightback to win this exciting encounter against Sullivan Upper School in the 4th round of the Northern Bank Schools Cup. This match was easily my favourite encounter in a weekend packed with rugby. Quite simply, it had it all, thrills, spills, a little argy bargy, […]
There is certainly an air of expectation around Friends School Lisburn as they prepare for this Saturday’s fourth round match in the Northern Bank Schools Cup against Sullivan Upper School. KO 10:30am. Despite losing to the Holywood based side earlier in the season, 1st XV Coach Stephen Robinson is looking forward to the game and […]