Six of the 24 British & Irish Lions selected by Warren Gatland to tour Hong Kong and Australia later this month have earned places in the 2013 RaboDirect PRO12 Dream Team. The two youngest members of the 125thanniversary tour party, Glasgow Warriors full back Stuart Hogg and Scarlets wing George North, join Scarlets centre Jonathan […]
After 132 games over 22 rounds just four of the twelve participating teams now go forward to the knockout phase in the quest to find the RaboDirect PRO12 champions of 2012/13. All bar one of them, Scarlets, have competed in the Play-Offs before, although the Llanelli based team did get their name on the trophy […]
Ulster fullback, Jared Payne, has signed a new three-year deal with the club that will see him remain at Ravenhill until at least the summer of 2016. Payne, who is 27, was today selected in the Barbarians squad to face England and the British and Irish Lions. He joined Ulster from the Auckland Blues two […]
Current British& Irish Lions players Alun Wyn Jones and Alex Cuthbert along with former England captain, Lewis Moody today launched a money-can’t-buy opportunity competition for Britain and Ireland’s ultimate rugby fans. Microsoft’s search engine Bing and airline Qantas have teamed up to send four of the most passionate and patriotic British and Irish rugby fans […]
Nick Williams and Luke Marshall doubled up to round off the perfect weekend for Ulster Rugby as they scooped the top two awards at the RaboDirect PRO12 Awards evening in Dublin tonight (Sunday, 5 May). [youtube hXn9RS-3Xmk] Two days after Ulster clinched top spot at the end of the regular season with a convincing 32-17 […]
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LAWRENCE DALLAGLIO & BRETT GOSPER – England’s World Cup winner and the IRB Chief Executive and Managing Director of Rugby World Cup Limited give their reaction to the announcement of the Rugby World Cup 2015 venues and match schedule CLICK HERE to listen WARREN GATLAND & SAM WARBURTON – We hear from the Lions Head […]
Passing through Bangor on a fact finding mission for an up coming feature on Bangor RFC we stopped at club sponsor Thomas’ Butchers to find out what is the fuel behind success. Thomas was there and while he claimed no direct glory for the double league champions he simply said – “We pride ourselves on […]
On Wednesday 01 May 2013, the Guinness Carrick 7s committee and the NGN 7s team joined together to meet the coaches and water boys that will participate in the Guinness Carrick 7s Open Tournament. They also had the privilege of meeting Oscar Knox who was very excited to meet his favourite players. CLICK HERE for […]