Following the announcement of the 2013 British & Irish Lions squad to tour Australia this June and July, the latest edition of HSBC’s Lions Monthly is now available for fans and media around the world. In this latest edition, there is a summary of all the recent news and views in the build-up to the […]
Six of the 24 British & Irish Lions selected by Warren Gatland to tour Hong Kong and Australia later this month have earned places in the 2013 RaboDirect PRO12 Dream Team. The two youngest members of the 125thanniversary tour party, Glasgow Warriors full back Stuart Hogg and Scarlets wing George North, join Scarlets centre Jonathan […]
South Africa win Emirates Airline Glasgow Sevens – New Zealand clinch HSBC Sevens World Series 2012/13 – Marriott London Sevens hosts England finish third – Glasgow silverware for USA, Australia, France South Africa won their third Cup title of the 2012/13 HSBC Sevens World Series, beating New Zealand 28-21 to clinch the Emirates Airline Glasgow […]
Ulster fullback, Jared Payne, has signed a new three-year deal with the club that will see him remain at Ravenhill until at least the summer of 2016. Payne, who is 27, was today selected in the Barbarians squad to face England and the British and Irish Lions. He joined Ulster from the Auckland Blues two […]
Ulster Juniors Ulster Juniors played the second game of the inter provincial campaign in Coleraine last Saturday when they took on their Munster counterparts. Both sides were unbeaten after Round One but it was the Munster men who ended victorious pulling away to a 29-9 win. Ulster were unfortunate to have been without their scrum-half […]
Current British& Irish Lions players Alun Wyn Jones and Alex Cuthbert along with former England captain, Lewis Moody today launched a money-can’t-buy opportunity competition for Britain and Ireland’s ultimate rugby fans. Microsoft’s search engine Bing and airline Qantas have teamed up to send four of the most passionate and patriotic British and Irish rugby fans […]
On Sunday 5th May, the Manvik Qualifying Sevens and the Abbey Insurance Ladies 10’s were both keenly contested affairs. In the Ladies competition, the semi-finals brought victory for defending Champions Queen’s and five times winners Cooke. In the final, Cooke started well and scored the first try but, as the game wore on, Queen’s gained […]
The Manvik Qualifying competition was dominated by defending champions CIYMS and Bangor in the pool stages although hosts Carrick, after a poor start against Bangor in their pool game came within one converted try of causing an upset and, had their handling and ball retention been better in the closing stages, they might well have […]
The Quigg Golden Open on Saturday 4th May was dominated from start to finish by the NGN 7s team organised to honour the memories of Noel, Graham and Nevin Spence. The team, based around Ballynahinch RFC for which Graham and Nevin played, ran in a feast of tries in pool victories over Hawick Linden, Jack […]