The traditional festive season local derbies are set to take centre stage as the RaboDirect PRO12 round 11 provides an exciting escape from turkey and TV. The games in Scotland and Wales take place on Boxing Day, whilst Ireland foregoes St Stephens’ Day games and sticks to the traditional Friday and Saturday evening slots. Local […]
The 2013/14 women’s rugby season in Ulster is underway, with significant changes to both leagues and the development section. ALL-IRELAND LEAGUE The AIL 2N league this season consists of 5 teams – Belfast Harlequins, Cooke, Enniskillen, Sligo and Queens. Belfast Harelquins finished second in the league for the second year running last season and AIL […]
After their forays into Europe, this weekend sees the start of the festive derby fixtures for the RaboDirect PRO12 teams. Ulster still lead the way with a perfect ten out of ten in this competition, a full nine points clear of their nearest rivals, Scarlets, and are one of three Irish Provinces currently in the […]
Ophir 1st XV sponsored by Ballyvesey Recycling Solutions kept their promotion hopes alive with a hard fought victory at a sunny Stormont on Saturday. CLICK HERE FOR THE ACTION SHOTS Ophir found themselves 7-0 down with only 30 seconds on the clock after poor reception of the kick off ball. The ball bounced kindly into […]
This years Floodlit Nutty Krust first round matches continued on Wednesday evening at Chambers Park with last years winners Monaghan beginning their title defence against Belfast side Instonians.. CLICK HERE FOR 11 Highest Quality Images From Hendron Digital Monaghan started the proceedings playing with a slight breeze behind them and the pack dominated the early […]
Bangor – 10 Enniskillen – 11 Enniskillen made the long journey to Bangor last Saturday looking to avenge the defeat in the opening match of the season and were delighted to come away with the points after a narrow win. In very difficult conditions ‘Skins had first use of a biting wind, but it was […]
The under 19s have a busy eleven days with four matches. The first away to Lurgan (22 Feb) under lights to warm up for the Portadown Nutty Krust match against Carrick(29 Feb 19:45) Saturday (25 Feb) away to Coleraine. Then the first round of the league cup on the 3rd March against Malone at Hamilton […]
Lurgan 1st XV 13 Randalstown 1st XV 11 (Gordon West) Coulda won it, shoulda won it but on balance Randalstown probably didn’t deserve to win on the day and so ended their Gordon West Cup aspirations. Lurgan opted to kick off in fine conditions and initially put ‘Town under a bit of pressure well inside […]
Five nations will contest the Heineken Cup quarter-finals in April for the first time since the 2003/04 tournament – and for only the second time in the 17 seasons of elite European club rugby. On a drama-packed final weekend of make-or-break Pool stage matches Edinburgh Rugby became the first Scottish club to claim Pool honours […]