The match of the weekend involved the meeting at Pirrie Park of Methodist College and Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Rudolph Benade landed a penalty to put the home side into a 3-0 lead. Royal Belfast Academical Institution came back strongly and enjoyed the majority of territorial possession for the remainder of the first half with […]
The best in the world clearly got a good run for their money from their Northern Hemisphere opponents France. Ireland were the only side to defeat a top 3 side at the World cup 2011 and were gutted not to preceed beyond the quarter final. All credit to New Zealand and France on a well […]
A number of teams played midweek games in the lead up to the fixtures played on Saturday 15th October. Belfast Royal Academy hosted a very spirited Larne Grammar School team in a midweek fixture at Roughfort. The home team enjoyed long periods of possession and territory which brought the best out of the committed Larne […]
They start with Wales, move onto France, then NZ & Australia. Will the Welsh Back Line be the best in the worlds, will the French turn up on the day. Both have a great 7 but who has the best back row? I hope the best team get through to the final and whoever we […]
A number of midweek games were played prior to a full list of Northern Bank Ulster Schools’ fixtures on Saturday 8th October. Methodist College hosted a very spirited Down High School team at Pirrie Park on Wednesday afternoon. Due to other school commitments the Methodist College team was missing a number of frontline players including […]
PRO AND COMMUNITY CLUBS TO JOIN RUGBY’S GREAT DEBATE Senior figures from leading rugby clubs in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Italy will join their counterparts from around the world at Rugby Expo 2011 at Twickenham on November 23 and 24 following an agreement between the RaboDirect PRO12 and organisers Rugby Ventures. The agreement will also […]
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Everyone needs a good mechanic and we are delighted to highlight the achievements of Paul Robinson. Paul works for Roco Auto-solutions in Lisburn and recently won 1st place in the 2011 competition. We caught up with Paul & Director Roy Kemp at their garage in Lisburn – InTouch TV comments are below: [youtube 1n_FNXekVb0] [youtube […]
1.07 million fans attend 40 matches of pool phase Ticket sales top 1.34 million Revenue hits NZ$262 million – NZ$6.5 million needed to reach target Nearly 1.1 million fans have passed through the gates of Rugby World Cup 2011 (RWC 2011) stadia with all 40 matches of the Tournament’s pool phase now completed, Tournament organisers […]
763,000 fans attend 28 matches Ticket sales top 1.32m Revenue hits NZ$259m – $9.5m to reach target More than three quarters of a million fans have attended Rugby World Cup 2011 following the completion of 28 out of 48 matches. “This is a fantastic result and resounding evidence that the Tournament is being enthusiastically embraced […]