Rugby League ss Back, and bigger than ever with the new Fermanagh Redskins joining the league for there first season. They join the Portadown Pumas, East Belfast Bulldogs, Strangford Sharks and the Ballynahinch Bulls (now Rabbitohs). Last season East Belfast won the 9’s and Ballynahinch won the grand final. This season Fermanagh Redskins have joined […]
Quite a week of rugby for the PigDogs!! On Wednesday 19th May 2010 both the ladies and mens squads played Lismore RFC in Edinburgh in entertaining games. Again the Pigdog ladies took the honours. Pictures From Both Games Click Here By all accounts a great game to watch, with the Pigdogs Men and Ladies notching […]
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 […]
Last weekend Ballymena Youth Rugby and Clontarf Rugby Club from Dublin continued with their groundbreaking cross border initiative. The two Clubs have become partners in an effort to secure closer cross border links and show their young players that rugby brings people together in a way in which they can compete but make still new […]
We ran a 10’s rugby tournament on Saturday with 6 sides in the main competition and 4 Vets teams. The event was held at Rainey Old Boys RFC in Magherafelt. The main competition involved 3 Rainey teams along with Bangor RFC, Cookstown RFC and Deviance, a team managed by a former Rainey man Wilbert Leacock […]
Queen’s finished a remarkable and record breaking season by lifting the Division Three Championship trophy with a dramatic last gasp victory over Nenagh in Dublin. Finals are about the result not the performance and Queen’s Director of Rugby Robbie Moore was delighted that was the case at the final whistle as the students struggled against […]
THERE was a real winning finale to the weekend’s Festival of Sport at Coleraine Rugby and Cricket Club. The fantastic two day event to celebrate the opening of the new changing facilities was rounded of in glorious style on Sunday afternoon when Coleraine knocked the much fancied Dublin side, Clontarf, out of the Irish Senior Cricket […]
The last Saturday of the Ulster League season saw Instonians and Banbridge provide a feast of tries at Shaw’s Bridge, with the home side coming out on top by a 10-8 margin. With Instonians’ front row resources severely depleted through injury and unavailability, they had already conceded the league points to the visitors before the […]
Work on site is due to begin on the 1st June’10 on new clubhouse and changing facilities at Ophir Rugby Football Club in Newtownabbey. Officials at the club have secured almost £85,000 for the ambitious project, which will involve the replacement of the existing changing rooms at Magowan Park in Mallusk with new, improved facilities. […]