Lisburn 17 – Bangor 20 The Corus sponsored Lisburn 1st XV were back at Blaris last Saturday after an eight week lay-off due to frozen pitches and holiday season breaks. The rustiness showed as despite scoring three good tries they found themselves at the wrong end of a Town’s Cup scoreline against old foes Bangor. […]
BIG CROWD & GOOD WIN FOR DONAGHADEE RUGBY III XV 17 v BANBRIDGE RUGBY V XV 0: McCAMBLEY CUP
Semi-tropical Donaghadee had almost no snow throughout what some newspapers called the disastrous weather period. But it was cold, and the pitches were sometimes too hard for contact sports, so a few degrees of warmth last week made for a welcome return to live rugby at Donaldson Park. The Donaghadee club Firsts were denied a […]
Northern Bank Ulster Schools Round Up Saturday 4th December 2010: Complete wipe out on Saturday 4th but the Dromore High School tour to Holland and 2ndxv, 3rdxv Cup draws have saved the day!!!!
Northern Bank Ulster Schools Round Up Saturday 4th December 2010 The adverse weather conditions prevalent on Saturday 4th December ensured that no schools rugby matches took place. This means that for the second week in a row, most schoolboy players lost out on game time. One of the matches lost to the weather conditions on […]
HIGH SCORING RESULTS BY BALLYCLARE: The 1st XV in the Junior Cup crushed Belfast Harlequins 2nds 69-12 and league games saw Seconds draw 10-10 away to Cooke2nds; Thirds lost at home 27-12 to Grosvenor 2nds; Fourths won 59-17 away to Lisburn 4ths and Under 19 XV won 30-9 at Larne.
Ballyclare 69 Harlequins 2nds 12 This Junior Cup game was sponsored by Davison and Associates and match-ball by David Houston. Once again a “Senior” club`s Seconds proved little real match for a Qualifying side and no visiting officials appeared at the pre-match lunch. Ballyclare made a few changes as Baillie,Jackson and R.Boyd were promoted with […]
The Beatty Cup Returns To Dungannon Rugby
The Beatty Cup The Beatty Cup which has been played for since 1968 between neighbours Dungannon and Portadown was again contested between old rivals. This year the cup was contested between the 3rd and 4th XV’s of the two clubs with the 3rd XV’s match having the added spice of league points being also up […]
Cups
For many years now we have been covering the following tournaments in club rugby in Ulster and have often wondered – Who are these people, Forster, McCambley, Crawford? Thanks to the work of Colm O’Kane who has completed some work experience for us. So many people follow the game that we have been increasing our […]
First Trust Senior Cup: Instonians 42 Ards 17
Ards played their First Trust Senior Cup quarter-final against Instonians at Shaws Bridge on Thursday evening, and despite what the score line might suggest, this was far from being a one sided contest. Indeed at one stage in the second half, both teams were separated by only 3 points. Inst hit the ground running after […]
First Trust Ulster Senior Cup: Ards 23 Portadown 0
Saturday 27th February. Roy Lawton reports. Heavy rain on Friday, forced a change of venue for this Ulster Senior Cup first round tie on Saturday, when Ards had to host Portadown at Regent House School playing fields at Circular Road in Newtownards. Regent has some excellent facilities on site and after a bit of a […]
Powerade Towns Cup: Donaghadee 14 Enniskillen 17
Saturday 20th February. Andrew Smallwoods reports. It was another late, late show by ‘Skins that saw them squeeze past a strong ‘Dee outfit and into the Towns Cup semi-finals. Early on the two sides swapped penalties, with Nicky Finlay the successful kicker for ‘Skins, before both scored a try apiece before the halftime break. Donaghadee’s […]
Results. 9/12/19 – 14/12/19
14/12/2019 Crawford Cup 14:30BALLYCLARE 20 V 50BALLYNAHINCH 3 Forster Cup 14:30BALLYCLARE 341 V 10P.S.N.I 2 Crawford Plate 14:30ARDS 20 V 39BALLYNAHINCH 4 14:30OMAGH 35 V 38BANBRIDGE 3Omagh Forster Plate 14:30CARRICKFERGUS 36 V 17RANDALSTOWN 3 Kukri Ulster Rugby Championship Division 1 14:30CLOGHER VALLEY38 (6) V 14 (1)GROSVENOR Kukri Ulster Rugby Championship Division 2 14:30ARDS9 V 8RANDALSTOWNA […]