InTouch has teamed up with two local experts, Claire Withers – Personal Trainer – and Peter Baird – Complete Gyms Nutrition – to train an advanced level rugby athlete Alan Whitten. Required Outcome: After an intial consultation with Alan, Claire & Alan have identified a 25% increase in key specific areas, is the desired outcome! […]
In a break with established tradition the new chairman of the club is Vishal Chopra. The main difference is that Vishal has come to the fore through his involvement with the cricket section, rather than the more traditional route of the rugby section in the club. That is not an issue as far as Vishal […]
Ulster Rugby have announced details of three pre-season friendly fixtures which will take place this August. First up is a home tie against Bath at Ravenhill on Friday 13th August with a 7.30pm kick off. Ulster defeated Bath, who placed 4th in last season’s Premiership, twice last season in the Heineken Cup, 26-12 at Ravenhill […]
We were delighted to hear recently about a tour blog from Andrew Trimble (sent to John Dickson www.dicksondigital.com) while part of Irelands Antipodean Adventure and Thomond Park Babas game. We have reproduced some of them below below and you will take particular joy in the reaction of the Ulster boys on bumping into Xavier Rush, […]
Intouch are delighted to be covering this exciting 7s tournament taking place at Belfast Harlequins RFC on Sunday, August 29, 2010, 11:00am – 5:00pm. 10 Teams will battle it out for the honour of being the first ever winner. Womens Rugby is on the up in Ulster and with new teams forming every year the […]
Without a doubt the best game of Rugby League in Ulster this season. An exciting game throughout. Hard fought with the highest number of big hits we’ve seen, and all the skills. The Redskins were ahead until the closing stages of the game. Right from the first 10 minutes the Redskins enthusiasm, commitment to breaking […]
This report covers the Thursday league finals of Ulster Tag @ Malone. But, we will bring next week our review of the tournament, picking the best pictures and moments and we will be awarding prizes for the best pictures. The prizes will not be brilliant but its just our way of saying thank you for […]
Tag Ulster Malone Wednesday finals took place last night, infront of a busy crowd. There were 8 finals and as expected the competition was intense, tense, and very exciting. Alot of nerves in the opening exchanges made for some neck tingling moments for the supporters but the teams quickly settled into some fantastic tag. Following […]
By Johnny McCreary SEVEN of Banbridge Rugby Club’s U17s players have been selected to take part in trials for Ulster’s Rugby U17s squad. The players are Chris Knox (loose head prop), Ryan Dennison (openside flanker), Johnny McCreery (tight head prop), Kyle McConnell (second row), Peter Cromie (number eight), Andrew Sleator (blindside flanker) and Matthew McDonald […]