AXIOS | Ulster Rugby Clubs & Lifestyle Magazine
This years tournament is scheduled for the 22nd of August. These games do not count towards the competitors league or cup games during the actual competitive season but rather this tournament represents an opportunity to get game time prep in and make that step from pre-season fitness to actual competitive rugby union, it is an […]
Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Round Up Saturday 22nd November 2014. In the lead up to a large list of fixtures on Saturday 22nd November, there were two midweek friendly games played on Wednesday 19th November. A Wallace High School “Select xv” played Bangor Grammar School in a game the young Wallace team won by 33-14. […]
The Autumn international series continues this weekend. At Grassroots level the action will be fast and furious. We have fixtures in DIV 1A and B of the Ulster Bank All Ireland league with the clubs in Div 2A and B enjoying a welcome two week break before their league programme recommences on Sat 6th December. […]
Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Round Up Saturday 22nd March 2014 The Friends’ School Senior Rugby squad went on an end of season tour, with David Wells Tours, to Paris. They played two games and went to the Stade de France to witness the exciting climax to the RBS Six Nations Championship when the Ireland team […]
Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Round Up Saturday 22nd February 2014 During the half term break some schools took the time to play a Danske Bank Ulster School’s’ Medallion Shield replay, a Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Medallion Plate game as well as a Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ 2ndxv Plate game. In the Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ […]
Four interesting ties with the four Ulster Senior second xv sides capable of winning these games. Current Cup holders CIYMS have a tricky match at the Dub against the undefeated Queens seconds. Beaten finalists Cooke face a difficult game at Deramore against Quins second xv. With Quins first xv having no match this weekend, Cooke […]
There are only four Qualifying league games being played in Q 2,3 and 4 this weekend. In Qual Two, league leaders Ballyclare have the opportunity to open up a fourteen point league on second place Omagh, before the two sides meet at Omagh on the 1st March. In Qual Three league leaders Holywood can open […]
Powerade Towns Cup Quarter Finals Four evenly matched games in the quarter finals of the Towns Cup this weekend. Clogher Valley would have to be the favourites this year, having appeared in five finals since 2006. They last won the trophy in 2012 and 2011. Other quarter finalists including Coleraine, Ballymena seconds, Ballymoney, Ballynahinch seconds, […]
Rearranged fixtures in the AIL have reduced the playing programme in the Ulster Senior league this weekend to three fixtures between Malone v Armagh, Ballynahinch v Ballymena and Dungannon v Queens. The stand out game is the meeting of the top two sides Ballynahinch and Ballymena at Ballymacarn Park. Both sides are locked on forty […]
