Ards 1st and 2nds both lose out to Banbridge opposition. Great turnout at Ireland v Australia RWC Breakfast (Super result) This Weeks Fixtures Ards 1st and 2nds both host Instonians at Hamilton Park. 3rds and 4ths on the road to Carrick and Grosvenor respectively. Banbridge 34 v 7 Ards Ards 2nd XV’s season continued on […]
Malone rugby Club I XV 34 v ARMAGH Rugby Club I XV23 Following their narrow defeat against Ballymena on Wednesday evening, Armagh travelled to Gibson Park on Saturday to play their first away fixture in the Ulster League. Armagh, having won only one of their Ulster League fixtures were, nevertheless, confident of putting on a […]
Donaghadee v Dromore Dromore travelled to newly promoted Donaghadee and in a disjointed performance lost 38 14. There where many similarities to last week as once again Dromore faced a team that where simply bigger and stronger and had to spend long periods of the game defending. Once Dee got into their stride it was […]
Newly promoted City of Armagh 3rd XV took the field with a few regulars missing from last season. These regulars being snapped up by the, (team of the year), Seconds shows the quality of players in the Thirds, with the vital development going on within the 3rds which doesn’t often get the credit it deserves. […]
ENNISKILLEN 3RD – 6 VIRGINIA RFC 1ST – 13 On Saturday Virginia 1st XV travelled to Enniskillen for their first friendly encounter of the season. After few weeks of intense training everybody was impatient to finally take to the field in a competitive game. Virginia fielded an unusual team where a handful of household names […]
Ards Ladies won their first game in the Ards colours on Saturday 27th Sept, when they beat Belfast Harlequins Ladies 15 – 5 at a 7s Tournament in Belfast. The girls came 3rd overall and considering 5 of the squad had never actually played before, this was a truly amazing achievement. Well done to everybody […]
I XV Late Queens scores deny Bann Bann went down to the second defeat of their Ulster League campaign after running out of steam in the final quarter hour of their home game against Queen’s. Coach Daniel Soper was again forced to select from a squad severely hit by injury and unavailability, but the student […]
PORTADOWN 27 – 24 LIMAVADY Portadown got back to qualifying league action for the first time in over two months with an away visit to Limavady. The visitors found the going tough in the opening exchanges and whilst they were dominant in the scrum, the amount of penalties conceded stifled any momentum they hoped to […]