A Brilliant day at the Finn Valley Rugby Club Tag Summer festival. Inishowen won the tournament and well deserved too, but Finn Valley put on a great fight and it was a brilliant final, to all the other teams, Tir Chonnail, Ballyshannon and Letterkenny, well done on making this a great day. Looking forward to […]
Letterkenny hosted a successful u12s mini rugby festival during the easter break. 9 clubs took part in the event with many clubs playing each other for the first time. It was an excellent opportunity for clubs to identify players who will be making the step up into the 15 a side u13s in september. Ulster […]
Over 450 u8s-u12s took part in 2 festivals held in Coleraine and Omagh: A fantastic success for rugby. Community Rugby Development Officer for the IRFU Ulster Branch sent us pictures from the event which you can see here. Clubs involved were Letterkenny (black yellow tops), Omagh (green white hoops), City of Derry (green top black […]
The I.R.F.U. (Ulster Branch) in consultation with the PSNI, who have appealed that only essential traffic movement should take place due to adverse weather conditions, have taken the decision that there will be no rugby played under the auspices of the Ulster Branch on Friday 17th, Saturday 18th or Sunday 19th December 2010. This will […]
A large crowd gathered in scenic and sunny Carrickfin on Saturday last to witness the debut of the Tir Chonaill rugby club senior team in their first game. The club played host to Finn Valley RFC, and these two clubs are the newest rugby clubs in Ireland. Finn Valley have only recently begun playing with […]
Over the last three years Donegal has been leading the way in the growth of rugby at club and schools level in Ulster. The DCRP from 2007 to current has produced some substantial results in growing the game in Donegal. These include over 160 new qualified coaches, an increase of 9 to 20 secondary schools […]
The sixth rugby club in Donegal and the second during the first 3 years of the Donegal Community RugbyProject was officially opened last month on Wednesday 14th April. The club had the honour of having current Ulster Forwards Coach and former Ulster, Ireland and Lions second row Jeremy Davidson to unveil a plaque that will in years […]
The women’s week in Donegal proved to be a positive new initiative in getting over 80 new girls and women involved in the game around the county. At mini level over 50 new players were attracted to the game through the clubs involved and are continuing to train every Saturday under the direction of their […]