Cooke emerge narrow winners in an error strewn and bad tempered affair at Chambers Park. The visitors, who had several positional changes, started the game anxiously, conscious of the fact that a bonus point win was essential to stay in the reckoning for league honours. It was Portadown however who had all the play in […]
In a close match where the lead swung from Bangor to Ballyclare and then back to Bangor, the home side kept their composure and produced one of their best performances to finish as 22-18 winners. CLICK HERE FOR 15+ ACTION SHOTS FROM BANGOR CLUB DINNER With Ballyclare in contention for the league title and Bangor […]
Saturday (25th Feb) saw the 2’s and 3’s in cup and in two very close games the Toon 2nd XV overcame a physical Clogher 2’s to win 7-5 in Fivemiletown. The 3rd went down 15-7 to a very strong Bannbridge 4th side which was disappointing as the 3rd Xv had beaten them away in the […]
Seconds demolish Virginia The seconds finally got their season off to a start with a 31-3 win over Virginia 1st XV. This was a great performance form the second XV and proves that the are capeable of winning games against sides of a similar level. This does add to the question of the more point […]
Saturday 3rd March saw Quins 2’s restart their 2 XV Senior League campaign with an away fixture at the Palace Grounds Armagh against an inform Armagh 2nd XV currently sitting in second place in the league. Quins suffering a number of unavailable players due to injury were further hit before they left Deramore with two […]
Not everyone can claim to having founded a rugby club but back in 1968, this is what Dr SR Logan did, arriving as a member of staff to the Chemistry dept of the New University opened in Coleraine that same year. During the following 44 years Sam has played for the club, has been mini […]
Randalstown 1st XV 28 Lurgan 1st XV 6 Randalstown avenged their defeat to Lurgan just 2 weeks ago with a fairly comprehensive victory over them at Neillsbrook on Saturday afternoon, keeping alive their hopes of clinching the Qualifying 3 title. It was a pleasing endeavour in front of a sizeable crowd who had supported the […]
Playing their first match in three weeks, a much changed Carrick 1st XV side went down to a heavy defeat against Queen’s University 2nds in the Conference at the Dub on Saturday 3 March. After a competitive first quarter, at the end of which Carrick held a narrow lead, a combination of good counter-attacking play […]
Antrim crack Carrick’s defence with 5 try’s unanswered. With Antrim travelling to Carrick to close the gap at the top of the table it was important for the Antrim lads to come home with all 3 points. The start of the game saw Antrim kick off and playing into the wind they had it all […]