A good year for the sport with teams competing in the Irish Championships. The teams met up at Bangor’s Aurora Complex on Sat 13th of December for the final round of 2014. “So the Irish Club Championships 2014 came to a close at the weekend in Bangor, County Down. Ulster Barbarians beat Munster Crusaders in […]
ENGLAND WINGER MARTIN OFFIAH IS NEW ANTI-BULLYING CHAMPION
ENGLAND WINGER MARTIN OFFIAH IS NEW ANTI-BULLYING CHAMPION He joins fellow rugby great Gareth Thomas at Balls to Bullying Rugby great Martin Offiah’s post-playing career has taken a new turn with his appointment as an anti-bullying champion for national campaign Balls to Bullying. The campaign, set up by leading teacher recruitment agency Prospero Teaching, has […]
GAA Championship structures need sledgehammer approach
The Championship structure is unfair and hopelessly outdated, club players are treated disgracefully, and excessive demands are being placed on county footballers, suggests Paddy Heaney. And the GAA’s solution to these deep-rooted and age-old problems? The leadership wants to bring the All-Ireland finals forward by one or two weeks. (They’re still not sure). As remedies […]
First Trust SNR Cup Champions 2014 are Ballynahinch RFC
Scores Sequence First Half Scores penalty for malone on hinch 22, 3-0 to malone (Josh Pentland TBC) Jack McMurtry try, converted by Josh Pentland (10-0 to Malone) Stephen McAuley try for Hinch converted by Reaney 10-7 34 mins played The First Trust Senior Cup half time score was Malone 10 Hinch 7 Second Half Scores Try […]
European Champions Cup highlights the skills divide that exists between northern and southern hemispheres
Lack of creativity: There remains a skills divide between the two hemispheres Photo: GETTY IMAGES What European Champions Cup shows is that the basic skills are not executed with anything like the consistency necessary to survive shift up to the highest level After the heady heights of the autumn internationals it was back to the […]
Ballymoney Fourths get cup campaign off and running
Fourths get cup campaign off and running Match report by James Speers Ballmoney’s 4th XV got their McCambley Cup campaign off to a winning start with a comfortable victory over Ballynahinch. The first half saw both teams play some open, entertaining rugby. The Ballymoney backs were keen to spread the ball wide and challenge their […]
Dr Éanna Falvey set great example with call on Conor Murray in Australia match
Alan Quinlan: It didn’t matter that a Test match was on the line, concussion protocols had to be followed After the game on Saturday, I got a Tweet from Peter Robinson, father of the schoolboy Benjamin Robinson who died on the side of a rugby pitch in January 2011. Since his son’s death, Peter has […]