The Ulster Senior League got underway on Saturday with the Hinch travelling to the Dub in Belfast with only four regulars in their starting line-up. The Hinch side made a poor start, Queens enjoying most of the possession and converting two penalty goals through the boot of David Kenny for an early 6-point lead. In […]
Banbridge Under-17s completed the Ulster League and Cup double with a hard-fought win over Ballynahinch in the Cup Final played at Ravenhill last Saturday. The Bann side had just returned on Wednesday night from an arduous tour in the Biarritz area of France. And after electing to play the first half into the strong wind […]
Ten days ago Dungannon were fourteen points behind Ballynahinch in the Ulster League. Without talisman second row Michael Rainey five points were collected from Banbridge, without Glen Telford, arguably the best non contracted 12 in Ireland we collected five points from Ballymena. Then without Michael Kirkwood, Callum Threlfall, Jason Bloomfield, Ben Howard and Stuart McKenzie […]
CLICK HERE FOR 145 PICTURES CLICK HERE FOR 105 New Pictures [youtube PZrzpcAxn3E] [youtube q1kgZ5ibLQg] A simply superb performance by Clogher Valley. The front five absolutely proved the age old point that without a scrum you have nothing, and without the tight five in forward play dominating the opposition you may forget it. The Clogher […]
Armagh played the last game of their 2010-11 season on Wednesday evening when they met Ballynahinch 2nd’s at Ravenhill in the final of the Millar McCall Wylie sponsored Junior Cup. This game was originally scheduled to be played on December 29th but was hastily rearranged to facilitate the snow clearing operations of the Ravenhill pitch […]
CLICK HERE FOR 100+ PICTURES FROM WWW.GLENOPHOTO.COM On Saturday Ballyclare 1st XV had to make six changes for the key clash at home to Donaghadee in Qualifying2. Unavailable were Steve Morrow,Ian Russell,Paul Morrow,Gary Clotworthy,Darren Montgomery and Graeme McKinstry. This meant several changes both positional and personnel had tobe made against a Dee side which fielded […]
It was a perfect evening for running rugby and both teams did their level best to entertain the vocal support that turned up at Ravenhill. There were four tries, four yellow cards and one red card in an action packed final worthy of the occasion. The Hinch dominated the early exchanges and kept the Armagh […]
Perfect conditions at Ballymacarn Park greeted both sides on Saturday. Hinch were in search of another bonus point win to keep the pressure on UCD who faced a tough assignment in the colours match against Trinity which was played at Donnybrook. If the Hinch could win at Ballymacarn and Trinity overturned UCD in Dublin, the […]
Ballyclare hosted three final on Saturday 16th April 2011 The .day began with Rainey against Lurgan in the U15 Bowl Competition. Just three minutes after Douglas Tweed blew the whistle Lurgan had cross the line with a try by Graham Bell convert by Ryan Mooney. Rainey battle well but were soon having the defence challanged. […]