Ards were the visitors to Telford Park last Saturday for their Ulster conference league match and found themselves up against a Newry First XV which was showing quite a few changes from the recent league wins over Randalstown and Ophir. The match saw the return of Peter Jenkins to out-half and much local attention was […]
BANBRIDGE 16 NENAGH ORMOND 14 Banbridge produced another late, late show to snatch victory out of the grasp of visitors Nenagh in last weekend’s Ulster Bank League game. A ferocious defensive display by the Tipperary side, together with the boot of out-half David Devaney, appeared to have the visitors on course for success as the […]
Impressive Win for Newry 1st XV Ards were the visitors to Telford Park last Saturday for their Ulster conference league match and found themselves up against a Newry First XV which was showing quite a few changes from the recent league wins over Randalstown and Ophir. The match saw the return of Peter Jenkins to […]
Randalstown (17) V Newry 1st (20) A great victory for Newry 1st’s which keeps the promotion hope alive. Newry 2nd (10) vs Ballymena 4th (12) Rugby returned to Newry after the recent cold spell which played havoc with the fixture lists across Ireland. With the First and Third teams both playing away last Saturday the […]
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 new looked Newry squad travelled to Lurgan for what was to be an excellent game of free open rugby. Newry appeared sluggish at the start, maybe due to the travel, as Lurgan immediately countered at rucks setting up for a backs move which cut the defence in half resulting in a converted try for […]
Portadown met Dungannon 2’s under lights at Chambers Park on Friday night in wet and windy conditions that did little for the game as a spectacle. The Blues started well and in the opening exchanges bossed territory and possession, several penalty kicks pointed to the home sides dominance in the first fifteen minutes but they […]
After a week of rain the Newry pitch held up well under pressure from two heavy packs. Newry kicked off playing towards the clubhouse. Good pressure from the Newry back row lead to Holywood errors. Both teams where guilty of sloppy kicking not capitalising on penalty’s. Captain Connor Marshall drove the attacking side back well […]