{"id":3257,"date":"2010-07-27T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T08:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2010-07-27T09:30:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T08:30:49","slug":"the-young-farmers-clubs-of-ulster-tag-rugby-tournament-heat-1-armagh-rugby-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/the-young-farmers-clubs-of-ulster-tag-rugby-tournament-heat-1-armagh-rugby-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Young Farmers&#8217; Clubs of Ulster &#8211; Tag Rugby Tournament &#8211; Heat 1 Armagh Rugby Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Young Farmers&#8217; Clubs of Ulster (YFCU) is an association of local clubs run by young people that welcomes members from all communities in the town, city and countryside.<br \/>\nYFCU has approx 2,500 members aged 12-25.  There are currently over 50 active clubs in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 40 of the clubs have entered to compete in the now annual Young Farmers Tag Rugby tournament and this year we are covering the heats and finals.<\/p>\n<p>Heat one was 26th July at Armagh RFC and heat 2 Ballymoney RFC on 27th July. The Finals are Saturday 31st July at Banbridge RFC.<br \/>\nWe covered heat one and were very encouraged by the standard across two sections, juniors and seniors.<br \/>\n<strong>YOU CAN VIEW HEAT 1 PHOTOGRAPHS BELOW<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf?host=picasaweb.google.com&#038;RGB=0x000000&#038;feed=http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/data\/feed\/api\/user\/intouchrugby\/albumid\/5498363701689119281%3Falt%3Drss#\"><strong>133 Pictures from all the teams at the Armagh RFC Heat 1 &#8211; CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The standard was good, and a number of players stood out. We sincerely hope these young farmers are part of rugby clubs because the  free flowing talented rugby they played at heat 1 would be a credit to any rugby club.<\/p>\n<p>Well done to the Ulster Development Officers, staff at YFCU, and Northern Bank the official sponsors. We are looking forward to the heat 2 results and the finals this Saturday.<br \/>\nAn extremely worthwhile tournament developing rugby and the enjoyment of sport.<br \/>\nFor further information on The Young Farmers&#8217; Clubs of Ulster visit their website on www.yfcu.org<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NFUM-Logo_v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NFUM-Logo_v2-1024x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"NFUM-Logo_v2\" width=\"630\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-3256\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfumutual.co.uk\/local-offices\/northern-ireland\/index.htm\">To Find Your Local NFU Office &#8211; Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Young Farmers&#8217; Clubs of Ulster (YFCU) is an association of local clubs run by young people that welcomes members from all communities in the town, city and countryside. YFCU has approx 2,500 members aged 12-25. There are currently over 50 active clubs in Northern Ireland. Approximately 40 of the clubs have entered to compete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,400,189,476,3],"tags":[2585,2689,2688,2687],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armagh","category-ballymoney","category-banbridge","category-tag-rugby","category-ulster-rugby","tag-armagh-rfc","tag-ballymoney-rfc","tag-banbridge-rfc","tag-the-young-farmers-clubs-of-ulster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","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=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}