Armagh travelled to Carrickfergus to play a friendly on Friday evening. Armagh turned out to be the winners by scoring four tries to Carrick’s two penalties. It was a game organised by coach, Andy Hughes, to welcome newcomers to the Armagh side. Indeed, the game enabled him to use all the many replacements and observe […]
At two o’clock last Saturday Donaghadee coach Jimmie McCoy was still facing selection problems for his First XV’s opening game of the league season. This had been because of a scarcely-believable series of cry-offs and late failures of fitness tests. Thursday’s training session had begun with the knowledge that Dougie Gordon, Billy Allen, Gareth Gordon […]
Colin Atkinson returns to ARMAGH rugby: Colin Atkinson returns to the Palace grounds this season to assist Coach Andy Hughes. Colin previously played for Armagh for two seasons 1999/01. He moved into All-Ireland senior rugby playing for Ballynahinch and Belfast Harlequins where he captained the side for three successive seasons. Colin has represented Ulster where […]
Ulster Rugby has today confirmed that Paul Emerick (30) will be joining the club on a short-term contract (3 months) as a direct replacement for the injured Andrew Trimble. Trimble sustained a finger injury whilst on tour with Ireland earlier this summer and is not expected to return to rugby until mid to end October. […]
Different Drums Of Ireland is a local band specialising in drums and were invited recently to attend the Irish Fest Wisconsin. There were three strands to the visit; a concert at Big Top Chautauqua – native American word meaning Talking Place, where different Drums played a double bill with Tommy Sands; then a trip to […]
Rugby League Ireland is looking to appoint a General Manager who has the ability to further develop Rugby League Ireland into a successful and effective sporting body able to expand and offer greater opportunities within the sport for people in Ireland. They will have excellent communication and business skills, be a well motivated self starter […]
The Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle Church is est in Belfast for 50 years. The Senior Pastor is Pastor James McConnell, who was born in East Belfast. Whitewell as a church has 3,500 people attending each Sunday across two services. Five years ago to the exact same weekend at the Odyssey arena the Church held the same […]
Ballyclare RFC 1st XV & 2nd XV played Coleraine RFC 1st XV & 2nd XV at The Cloughan on Saturday 28th August 2010. The 1st League games will take place this weekend and this game from last weekend represented a full training game for the teams in their preparations for various league and cup campaigns. […]
Tickets for The Rare Oul Times are now available. They can be purchased from the reception at Ferguson’s Irish Linen during the daytime, Fergusons Irish Linen 54 Scarva Road Banbridge Tel:028 4062 3491 or by contacting John Ewart in the evening on 07909 978505. Tickets can be purchased from the bar at Banbridge RFC during […]