Ballyshannon rugby club men recorded their first win of the season when they defeated a strong and much fancied Derry side in the Maiden city on Saturday. Ballyshannon were slow out of the blocks and allowed the home side to dominate at the beginning. The Derry side scored an early penalty and for the opening […]
The soil was dry, the pitch perfectly cut, as the solid crowd of supporters assembled to watch their club. They are smarting from retirement, injury and with 5 guys taking to the field for the first or second game ever the club dug deep and produced some spectacular rugby. Phases, aggressive counter rucking, dynamite crash […]
Ballyshannon under 13’s recorded a great 22-15 over Dungannon at the Lakeside Centre on Saturday morning. In a hugely entertaining game watched and supported by plenty of parents the tries came from James Cleary, Niall Carr (2) and Cillian Murphy with Niall Carr converting the last try. A great all round team performance with lads […]
Absolutely superb game. The newly regenerated Ballyshannon Ladies team played a superb game of rugby with the basics of tackling and rucking on show, great scrum and lineout. They conceded a try early in the match and their hearts went down for a few minutes but they worked their way back into the game, turning […]
What a game. The passion and commitment for each other and the game from both sides was amazing! End to end throughout, with some of the biggest hits we have seen and big scrums, great pahse play from both sides. Ballyshannon put a phase together of something like 29 together! Off loads, rucking, kicking, tries, […]
Finn Valley RFC, Donegal Town RFC and Ballyshannon RFC ran successful Tag Rugby Festivals at their local clubs recently. Ulster Branch Club Community Rugby Officers Barry Laverty(Finn Valley) Declan Gallagher (Donegal Town) and Ray Gallagher (Ballyshannon) had been in schools delivering sessions of the non contact game to children aged 8 to 12 culminating in […]
SENIORS: Ballyshannon R.F.C.’s training continues this week. This Tuesday and Thursday the senior men will be training at 7.00pm at the lakeside centre in Ballyshannon. The senior ladies will also be training this coming week, their sessions will be held on Wednesday and Friday at 7.00pm at the lakeside centre in Ballyshannon. These days will […]