Randalstown U 17XV Progress to League Semifinals Randalstown made the long journey to Donegal Town to play the quarter final of the Under 17VX League Cup. Three days of rain in the west of Ireland resulted in the pitch being just about playable with over 30% of the playing surface very soft. With conditions under […]
Ballyclare 1st XV were without a Kukri Qualifying Section 2 league game on Saturday but the overall positions in the table have not greatly changed. Omagh won at home and remain third a point behind Ballyclare while U.U.C. apparently were held to a draw and are still at the top just above the Clare with […]
CRFC U15s-34 Co Cavan RFC U15s-7 Pictures are below the report Whilst the Federation Francais Rugby spiraled downwards into the abyss that was their own French Fiasco on Saturday night at Stade De France Carrick U15s wisely surrendered the advantage of playing at Tom Simms Memorial Park and decamped to the pitch at Downshire School. […]
This was a big win for Donegal 1sts in a game more competitive than the score suggests. The home side ran in 5 tries. Pete-so Cannon got over for the opening try (and added three conversions later) Donagh O Callaghan got number two following some great phases of forward play and added a penalty. Greth […]
Armoy took a big step in their quest to secure back to back Minor league North titles with a well manufactured win against UUC II. The match started with the students receiving the kick off and from the outset it was clear that any go forward ball they would create would be via their young […]
Donaghadee were convincingly beaten 44-18 by Cooke last Saturday in their heaviest defeat of this campaign. Donaghadee made a couple of enforced couple of changes to the team that beat Ballymoney in the second round of the Towns Cup with front row forwards Chris Schofield and Chris Goode missing out due to illness. Cooke narrowly […]
A third successive bonus point win for Banbridge consolidated their second place position in Division 2A of the Ulster Bank All-Ireland League. (picture from a previous game) With Mark Wilson, Robin Thompson and Jonny Pollock all having picked up knocks at Nenagh the previous week, Bann started with Ryan Patterson at flanker, Richard Finlay at […]
Enniskillen – 10 Grosvenor – 18 After the euphoria of the excellent cup win on the road last week, it was back to league action with a disappointing bump for ‘Skins at Mullaghmeen. The game opened scrappily with too many penalties being conceded in the early exchanges by ‘Skins but at no great loss early […]
With the heavy rain of Saturday night, the Letterkenny and Ballyshannon girls took to an extremely muddy pitch in the Glebe. In miserable conditions for a match which was to be a battle of the two Donegal Teams. Letterkenny started brightly and from kicking off they pressurised the Ballyshannon side and played the first ten […]
On Saturday Ballyclare 1st XV recorded another strong bonus point win at the Cloughan against Lisburn to remain in second place in Kukri Qualifying 2 just one point behind U.U.C. who had a good win over Carrick. It Now looks as if the league winners will come from U.U.C.,Ballyclare or Omagh with a couple of […]