{"id":27165,"date":"2012-05-11T08:23:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T08:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=27165"},"modified":"2012-05-11T08:23:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T08:23:35","slug":"ulster-rugby-league-the-no1-rugby-league-province-in-ireland-9-teams-the-league-starts-this-wekeend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ulster-rugby-league-the-no1-rugby-league-province-in-ireland-9-teams-the-league-starts-this-wekeend\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Rugby League: The No1 Rugby League Province In Ireland. 9 Teams &#8211; THE LEAGUE STARTS THIS WEKEEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its that time of year again when the domestic rugby league season<br \/>\nkicks off in Ulster with some new faces taking part.<br \/>\nOnce again everyone will be trying to break the Ballynahinch Rabbitohs<br \/>\ndomination of the league, having won their 3rd straight domestic title<br \/>\nlast season. It has been getting closer each season and perhaps the<br \/>\nfact Fermanagh Redskins and not the Rabbitohs won the Ulster 9&#8217;s last<br \/>\nweekend maybe we will see a change this year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Competing-Teams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Competing-Teams.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Competing Teams\" width=\"402\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27167\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlong with the Redskins, Belfast Bulldogs have traditionally been the<br \/>\nclosest to the Rabbitohs having contested the 2009 and 2011 finals.<br \/>\nThe Strangford Sharks, Portadown Pumas and Ballynahinch Bunnies all<br \/>\ncompete again this season while there are new teams in the shape of<br \/>\nthe Maiden City Broncos, Antrim Eels and North Coast Boomers.<br \/>\nThere has already been Ulster success this season with Ulster Students<br \/>\nwinning the inaugural student inter pros while the senior team open up<br \/>\nwith a fixture vs Leinster on Sat 2nd of June at Malone RFC.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who would like to get involved and play a bit this summer can<br \/>\ncontact Tim Morton on 07712174007 or e mail at devlu@rli.ie<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rabbitohs2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rabbitohs2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rabbitohs2011\" width=\"432\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27166\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAll standards welcome, you have to be 16 or over to play<\/p>\n<p>Fixtures this week;<\/p>\n<p>Ballynahinch Bunnies Vs Strangford Sharks<br \/>\nBallmacaren Park, Ballynahinch. 1pm KO<\/p>\n<p>Portadown Pumas V Belfast Bulldogs<br \/>\nLurgan College Playing Fields. 1pm KO<\/p>\n<p>Antrim Eels Vs Fermanagh Redskins<br \/>\nArmagh RFC, 2pm KO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its that time of year again when the domestic rugby league season kicks off in Ulster with some new faces taking part. Once again everyone will be trying to break the Ballynahinch Rabbitohs domination of the league, having won their 3rd straight domestic title last season. It has been getting closer each season and perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5938,5871,4050,5226,5914,8320,3959,5942,5698,5833,1997,10346],"class_list":["post-27165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-5938","tag-in","tag-ireland","tag-league","tag-no1","tag-province","tag-rugby","tag-starts","tag-teams","tag-this","tag-ulster","tag-wekeend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27168,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27165\/revisions\/27168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}