{"id":692483,"date":"2026-10-05T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=692483"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:46:43","slug":"danske-bank-ulster-schools-round-up-saturday-3rd-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/danske-bank-ulster-schools-round-up-saturday-3rd-october-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Round Up Saturday 3rd October 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Round Up Saturday 3rd October 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Wednesday 30th September, a number of the next series of Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup and Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Shield games took place.
\nIn Section A of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup, Ballymena Academy played Wallace High School and Methodist College, Belfast played Omagh Academy.
\nThe Section A scores were Ballymena Academy 14 Wallace High School 15 and Methodist College, Belfast 12 Omagh Academy 19.
\nIn Section B of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup, Campbell College, Belfast played Sullivan Upper School in a game the Campbell College, Belfast team won by 48-24.
\nIn Section A of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Shield, Ballyclare High School played Limavady Grammar School and won the game by 48-19.
\nIn Section B of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Shield, Enniskillen Royal Grammar School played Portadown College in a game the Portadown College team won by 31-28.
\nMeanwhile, on the same afternoon, a number of 1stxv friendly games took place.
\nBallyclare High School played Bangor Grammar School in a game the Ballyclare High School team won by 38-7.
\nThe Ballyclare High School points came through tries from Daniel Jenkins, with two, Daniel Montgomery, William Shiels, Joshua Tweed and Adam White.
\nJack Smith was successful with four of his conversion kicks.
\nThe Bangor Grammar School team scored one try through Jack Reid which was converted by Bruce McClure.
\nColeraine Grammar School travelled to Wanderers RFC in Dublin where they played St Andrew\u2019s College, Dublin with both their 1stxv and 2ndxv teams.
\nThe Coleraine Grammar School team won the entertaining and closely contested 1stxv game by 29-28.
\nThe St Andrew\u2019s College, Dublin team scored four tries through Jack Hanna, Charlie Clarke, Hugo Doyle and Oscar Dowdall.
\nOscar added the extras to all four of the St Andrew\u2019s College tries.
\nThe Coleraine Grammar School points came through tries from Feidhlim Penfold, following good work from Joe Coates, Joel McCracken, Adam Moore, and Luke McMillen, who took full advantage of another moment of magic from Joe Coates.
\nReuben Nicholl added three successful conversion kicks as well as one penalty goal.
\nThe Coleraine Grammar School 2ndxv, on the back of a superb two try performance from impressive full back, Lewis Hawe, recorded a hard earned 52-24 victory against the St Andrew\u2019s College, Dublin opposition.
\nAll four teams, their coaches and supporters, would like to thank Wanderers RFC for the provision of facilities and hosting the game.
\nFoyle and Londonderry College hosted Sligo Grammar School in a closely contested encounter the Foyle College team won eventually by 26-17.
\nJohn O\u2019Connor, Cian O\u2019Leary, with two and Niall Kelly were the home team try scorers to which Rory Curtis added three successful conversion kicks.
\nTimipeli Launoa, Sean Cashel and Sam Carniege ran in for the Sligo Grammar School tries with Sean O\u2019Reilly adding one successful conversion kick.
\nOn Friday 2nd October, Campbell College, Belfast played Regent House School at Belmont, home of CIYMS RFC.
\nThe Campbell College, Belfast team won this game by 47-7.
\nDylan Armstrong, with two, Charlie Clark, Will Stewart, Henry Brand, Harry Wells and Isaac Webster were the Campbell College, Belfast try scorers
\nJack Best was successful with six of his conversion kicks.
\nHarry Spence ran in for the Regent House School try which was converted by Zach McMinn.
\nBoth teams, their coaches and supporters, would like to thank CIYMS RFC for the provision of facilities and hosting the game.
\nOn Saturday 3rd October, a good range of 1stxv games took place.
\nIn the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Cup Qualifier game, Antrim Grammar School played Grosvenor Grammar School in a game the Antrim Grammar School team won by 24-8.
\nThe Antrim Grammar School team, on the back of a Man of the Match performance from Cameron Molyneaux, scored three tries through Jonah Woolley, Rio McKee and Ethan Lucas.
\nIssac Lynn added the extras to all three tries as well as kicking one penalty goal.
\nThe Grosvenor Grammar School team scored one unconverted try through Zane Greenlees with one successful penalty goal from James Campbell.
\nThe Antrim Grammar School team will now join the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Cup Group Stage C teams which includes Ballyclare High School, Rainey Endowed School, Limavady Grammar School and Foyle and Londonderry College.
\nThe Grosvenor Grammar School team will join Lurgan College, Strabane Academy and Bangor Academy in the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Development League with games scheduled to be played on the same dates as the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Cup Group Stage games.
\nBallymena Academy entertained Royal Belfast Academical Institution in a hard-fought game the Royal Belfast Academical Institution team won by 21-0.
\nCian McClean, Benjamin McCarten and Jack Coulter touched down for the Royal Belfast Academical Institution tries to which Jonnie Kennedy added all three successful conversion kicks.
\nBelfast High School played Lurgan College in a very committed game the Belfast High School team won by 42-10.
\nHubert Jaszczak and Ethan Barclay each scored two tries for the Belfast High School team with Matthew McCabe and Reuben Glenn each touching down for one try.
\nMatthew was also deadly accurate off the tee with all six successful conversion kicks.
\nThe Lurgan College team contributed a lot to the game and got some reward for their committed approach when Will Cunningham and Daniel Emerson each touched down for an unconverted try.
\nDalriada School played Foyle and Londonderry College in a very closely contested game the Foyle College team won by 19-15.
\nMatthew Nicholl and Matthew McCamphill each scored one try for the Dalriada School team with Chris Finney adding one successful conversion kick as well as one successful penalty kick.
\n\u201cHero of the Day\u201d for the Foyle College team was Tom O\u2019Neill who ran in for a hattrick of tries with Rory Curtis adding two successful conversion kicks.
\nEnniskillen Royal Grammar School played Banbridge Academy and won the game by 31-15.
\nAlfie Lucas, Ben Wallace, with two, Oliver Harte and Harry McKenzie ran in for the Enniskillen Royal Grammar School tries.
\nHarry Breen was successful with three of his conversion kicks.
\nConor Commiskey, Seth Martin and the outstanding Sam Leslie each touched down for an unconverted try for the Banbridge Academy team.
\nLarne Grammar School hosted Friends\u2019 School, Lisburn and won this close encounter by 19-17.
\nMan of the Match for the Larne Grammar School team, Rory Meldrum, touched down for two tries with Jamie Jones adding a third try.
\nZak Duncan added the extras to two of the Larne Grammar School tries.
\nThe Friends\u2019 School, Lisburn team scored three tries as well in the course of the game.
\nBen Garrett, Joel Irwin and Harry Mehaffey touched down for the tries to which John Hall added one successful conversion kick.
\nOmagh Academy played a Methodist College, Belfast \u201cSenior Select\u201d xv in a game the Omagh Academy team won by 40-26.
\nJosh Somerville, Lewis McIvor, with two, Ryan Mitchell, with two and Jamie Bradley were the Omagh Academy try scorers.
\nSami Braden was successful with five of his conversion kicks.
\nThe Methodist College, Belfast team points came through tries from Owen Chambers, Jack Donovan, Oliver Kennedy and Shay McGaffin.
\nJosh Spence was successful with three conversion kicks.
\nRainey Endowed School played Portadown College in the Vinny Doyle Memorial Cup and won the high scoring encounter by 32-26.
\nSenan McNulty, with two, Isaac O\u2019Kane, Rory McCrea and Zak Wilkinson scored the Rainey Endowed School tries with Christy McDonnell adding two successful conversion kicks as well as one penalty goal.
\nCharlie Rodgers, Daniel Rankin, Andrew Galloway and Caleb Ruddell ran in for the Portadown College tries with Charlie Rodgers adding three successful conversion kicks.
\nVinny Doyle\u2019s Mother and Father, his brother, Kieran and niece, Mollie, were in attendance at the game.
\nMollie presented the Vinny Doyle Cup to William Hunter, the Rainey Endowed School team captain, at the post-match presentation ceremony.
\nRoyal School, Armagh hosted Royal School, Dungannon and recorded a 17-0 victory.
\nEric Thompson, Alex McAdam and Teddy Jennings were the Royal School, Armagh try scorers with Eric adding the extras to one of the Royal School, Armagh tries.
\nSullivan Upper School played Belfast Royal Academy and recorded a 42-5 victory.
\nLucas McKeown, with two, Harry McCartney, with two, Jake Lynch and Scott Henderson were the Sullivan Upper School try scorers.
\nScott capped a fine personal performance with all six of his successful conversion kicks.
\nThe Belfast Royal Academy team points came through an unconverted try from Rory Brooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Round Up Saturday 3rd October 2026. On Wednesday 30th September, a number of the next series of Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup and Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Shield games took place. In Section A of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup, Ballymena Academy played Wallace High School and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":692484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692483","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=692483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692485,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692483\/revisions\/692485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}