The Irish Sponsorship market is set to return back to a future of double digit growth of 12% in 2015, reaching a new high of €152 million, according to the annual Onside Irish Sponsorship Industry Survey due for release from leading industry experts Onside Sponsorship this week. 2014 delivered significantly better than expected results for […]
[youtube H7HmzwI67ec] The Irish Sponsorship market is set to return back to a future of double digit growth of 12% in 2015, reaching a new high of €152 million, according to the annual Onside Irish Sponsorship Industry Survey due for release from leading industry experts Onside Sponsorship this week. 2014 delivered significantly better than expected […]
Chris Farrell is from Fivemiletown, a village in south Tyrone and a short distance from the border with Fermanagh, he played centre half for a local team. Bernard Jackman has tipped Grenoble’s former Ulster centre Chris Farrell as a dark horse for Joe Schmidt’s Ireland World Cup squad. Jackman, Farrell’s head coach at Grenoble, has […]
JJ Hanrahan’s departure to Northampton is desperately deflating for Irish rugby Gerry Thornley: Munster kicking themselves after talent slips through fingers Pic: JJ Hanrahan will play his rugby next season with English Premiership champions Northampton. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho There’s something that sticks in the craw about JJ Hanrahan leaving Munster for Northampton and the English […]
The CARA National Adapted Physical Activity Centre in conjunction with the Department of Justice and Equality today announced the Xcessible Youth Sport Initiative ‘Special Schools Tag Rugby’ in conjunction with the Irish Rugby Football Union. The Xcessible Youth Sport Initiative is a three year national focused initiative aimed at increasing the participation of children with […]
Image Credit: Bob Bob via Flickr. What Next For Ireland’s Provinces? As the European transfer-merry-go round gathers pace, Munster’s loss of emerging star JJ Hanrahan to Northampton could be the start of a worrying trend for the Irish provinces. En route to annexing five Heineken Cup trophies in seven seasons between 2005/6 and 2011/12 Munster […]
Pic credit: Matt Mackey/www.Inpho.ie see more at, Belfast Harlequins boosted their hopes of avoiding relegation from Division 1B with a bonus point defeat of UL Bohemians on Saturday 20th Dec, Bonus Point Victory Gives ‘Quins A Timely Boost 21 December 2014, 08:05 pm :: Match Report By Editor Division 1B’s bottom side Belfast Harlequins revived their […]
A good year for the sport with teams competing in the Irish Championships. The teams met up at Bangor’s Aurora Complex on Sat 13th of December for the final round of 2014. “So the Irish Club Championships 2014 came to a close at the weekend in Bangor, County Down. Ulster Barbarians beat Munster Crusaders in […]
Image: Billy Stickland/INPHO > > https://twitter.com/Inphosports SUNDAY INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST Paul Kimmage was on The Last Word with Matt Cooper this evening talking about the possibility of performance enhancing drug use in Irish rugby. Kimmage had a recent column in the newspaper that described his suspicions about drug use in rugby. The author of Rough Ride […]
Brian O’Driscoll is the latest sports personality to be honoured by Queen’s University Belfast One of Ireland’s greatest ever rugby players has received an honorary degree from Queen’s University Belfast. Former Ireland, and British and Irish Lions captain Brian O’Driscoll was given an honorary doctorate for services to sport. O’Driscoll was capped 133 times for […]