After a well-needed break from competitive rugby over the Christmas and New Year period, Bangor travelled to Carrickfergus for their first round match in this season’s Towns Cup. Thankfully the gales and rain from earlier in the week had gone, and the conditions were as good as one might expect at this time of year. […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV lost their first round Towns Cup encounter with Bangor by 24 points to 3 at Tom Simms Memorial Park on Saturday 7 January. Although an improvement on the heavy away League defeat against Bangor earlier in the season, the manner of the Carrick defeat was disapponting. A number of defensive […]
Inishowen 24 – 0 Finn Valley Report by Jeremy Blackman “.. he crossed the mountain and the rain continued to fall, thumping in paradiddles on the canvass across the shoulders of his fathers borrowed donkey jacket. The rain ran off the high moss banks and onto the stone of the road, picking out the bright […]
Hinch Strong Finish To Claim Victory In Tyrone A large support made the journey down the M1 on Friday evening for the Ulster Bank League fixture against Dungannon at Stevenson Park. “Friday Night Lights” is part of the new league structure with the big local derby games featured in the province when it doesn’t clash […]
The students travelled to Carrick with the highly impressive new facilities at Woodlawn. The weather conditions were atrocious, and the heavy rain had left the playing surface tricky at best. The University team much changed from the previous Saturday with five freshers making their university débuts. The reward for modifying their game plan at Thursdays […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV’s early season unbeaten run came to an abrupt end on Saturday 1 October when they were beaten by 24 points to nil at Tom Simms Memorial Park by University of Ulster, Coleraine(UUC) in the first round of the Jumior Cup. With three changes in personnel from the previous week and […]