Following the success of the inaugural City of Derry Rugby Club Summer Camp which was held at Lisneal College in early July, the Club are running another Summer Camp again at Lisneal College starting on Monday 23rd to Friday 27th August, 9am to 3pm. The demand from both children and parents after the July Camp […]
Ballyclare RFC are delighted to announce that Bob Young will be coaching the club for the 2010-2011 season. Pre-season training at the club started in Mid-July, with excellent numbers attending under the expert tutelage of Ronnie Lamont (who needs no introduction) and a hardened core of 40-50 players have duly turned up each and every […]
DONAGHADEE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB 1885-2010 Those interested in rugby football, and especially those who follow the fortunes of Donaghadee RFC, may be well up to date with the fact that the 21st August 2010 has been chosen for the formal opening of the celebrations of the 125th anniversary of its 1885 formation. Perhaps this celebration […]
Seniors The seniors are looking very sharp as pre-season heads into the game-plan mode at training, as they begin to prepare themselves for their forthcoming season. This Saturday will be the last Saturday training session of the pre-season as next week sees them playing off against each other in the Probable’s v Possible’s conditioning games. […]
Friendly games at this time of the year are an essential peice of any teams pre-season strategy and City Of Derry travelled to Belfast Harlequins to assess their readiness for AIL Rugby. The visitors came out of the stalls fighting in the first half with a succession of tries and conversions. The home side rallied […]
Randalstown fielded 2 teams on Saturday in controlled training games. The 1st XV travelled to Ballymoney to play a mixture of the home sides 1st and 2nd XVs. Despite being on the end of a 42-12 defeat, coach Michael Stevenson was happy that his players were put through a hard physical session against a side […]
Last week 2 Hockey teams and 2 Rugby teams from Sullivan Upper School arrived in South Africa on tour! This extensive tour will bring them up close to other sporting traditions. Tours are an immense challenge to organise and this one has been 3 years in the planning. It is worth it, as the memories […]
On Friday 20th and Saturday 21 August, Ophir Rugby Club will host their traditional Seven-a Side competition at Magowan Park, The Cottonmount, Mallusk. In a departure from the usual one-day event, the competition will kick off on the Friday evening with Under 19 teams challenging for the Ken Bonar Memorial Trophy. Entries have been confirmed […]
On Saturday the 15th August 2010, 150-200 players, friends, and fellow rugby enthusiasts decended on Ophir RFC to play two pre-season friendly games and watch the official opening of Ophir’s new clubhouse by Dr Syd Millar CBE. The sun was splitting the stones as they say, and Ophir could not have had better weather. Many […]