Top picture: David Wickens (hooker) in action for Ards RFC. Two young Ards players have been called into representative squads in both Ulster and in England respectively. Michael Lawton is in the Ulster Colleges Squad to face Munster Colleges at the National University of Ireland complex, Maynooth on Wednesday (27 Jan) and David Wickens has […]
Despite a late fightback from Grosvenor, CAI managed to hold on for a 10 – 17 win in this hard fought match at Grosvenor Grammar. CAI opened the scoring on 10 minutes with a try by Patrick Farrell after great work by Keith McKnight and Michael Shiels who turned over the Grosvenor scrum half allowing […]
Larne Grammar lost this third round Northern Bank Schools Cup tie against a powerful Friends School Lisburn by a score of 0 – 15. Despite the scoreline it was a closely contested game throughout with both sides creating chances in this bruising encounter. Larne Grammar started strongly in bright sunlight and put Friends under pressure […]
Limavady Grammar 13 – 7 Banbridge Academy. We have two reports for this match the first is from Banbridge. Banbridge Academy 1st XV crashed out of the Schools Cup on Saturday in a closely fought and entertaining third round game away to Limavady Grammar. The final score of 13 – 7 to Limavady is evidence […]
Ballyclare scored five tries in this Northern Bank Schools Cup third round tie as they comfortably saw off the challenge from Rainey Endowed. The weather conditions hampered play at the start of the match with a heavy mist which made kicking and catching difficult during the first ten minutes of the game . Ballyclare started […]
This weeks fixtures kick off on Wednesday night with an all Ballynahinch encounter between their 4ths and their 5ths in a match that is too close to call! Saturday sees the 3rd Round of the Northern Bank Schools’ Cup and we’ll be following Larne Grammar School in their match against Friends School. We’ll continue to […]
Palace Grounds Armagh Armagh 21 – Tullamore 8 Armagh returned to the Palace Grounds after an enforced break of almost a month, due to adverse weather conditions, with a return to form. This was to be the tie of the semis with the hosts playing last years winners of this competition Tullamore, The Armagh team […]
Having spent Friday night watching Ulster keep their European Cup hopes alive in a wet and windy encounter at Ravenhill it was a pleasant change to watch the Northern Bank Schools Cup 2nd Round match between Larne Grammar and Strabane Grammar kick off in bright sunlight on Saturday morning. Strabane Grammar had fought their way […]
Queens v Instonians 16th January 2010 Two season’s ago Queen’s promotion hopes were ended as Inst completed a smash a grab raid at Shaw’s Bridge. This season a bonus point win for the students has edged them closer to securing a place in Division Two as they outscored their Belfast neighbours by four tries to […]