Following on from last weeks hughely successful session coach Alasdair McKee held session 2 at Cooke Rugby Club last night and an excellent turnout of players travelled from far and wide to attend. With Ulster Rugby Clubs on the up all over the province most obvious at the AIL Level where we get to compete […]
George Clancy will get the 17th Heineken Cup tournament up and running when he takes charge of the match between Racing Metro 92 and Cardiff Blues at Stade Yves du Manoir on Friday, 11 November. It will be the Irish referee’s 31st tournament match with French official Jerome Garces on duty at the other opening […]
THIRDS WIN LEAGUE GAME Ballyclare Thirds had their second game of the season and fielded a strong side at the Cloughan against Grosvenor 2nds. It was particularly good to see J.J.Baird returned from America and also David Crawford both backs could soon challenge for 1st XV places. The Thirds dominated from the start and by […]
Right as far as we can tell these are two cool options for RWC2011. The Ask a player a question which you can do below immediately and results (only the BEST questions will be selected and receive a video response) in the player recording a video answer which is then watchable through the 2nd innovation […]
Table toppers. Cardiff Blues, kick-off the RaboDirect PRO12 Round 3 fixtures when they visit third placed Ulster at Ravenhill on Friday night. Both teams have a 100% winning record so far this season, the only difference between them being the 2 try bonus points Blues have collected – the only team to do so. CHECK […]
From the depths of despair at the bottom of the sand dunes to the heights of an impressive ‘friendly’ win against a very strong Harlequins team, August has been a fun, intense and intriguing month leading into the newly formed Rabo Direct Pro12 league. With the Northern Ireland golfers, Rory McIlroy (an avid Ulster Rugby […]
Ballymoney had all 5 off their senior teams taking the field on Saturday 10th Sept. There were good wins for the 1st XV beating CIYMS 25-12 (Report Below) The 2nd XV beat a strong Ballnahinch 3rd’s 25-23 in a thrilling game The 3rd XV suffered defeat in their 1st league game against a strong Academy […]
5s win 6-3…..4s beat 17-15…3s win 43-13……1s beat@hinch Malone lose heavily in Senior Cup encounter with Ballynahinch The 1st XV lost heavily away to Ballynahinch in the 1st Round of this years Senior Cup going down by a scoreline of 49-8. The Vikings however make it two in a row against CIYMS 2’s Carrying on […]
The new rugby season kicked off at Ballymacarn Park on Wednesday evening when a Ballynahinch XV played and Invitation XV in memory of Capt. Mark Hale who was killed in action in Afghanistan. The Hinch side made up from players representing the 2’s 3’s and 4’s faced a powerful looking 2 Rifle’s outfit which featured […]