After last week’s stalemate in the cup, Coleraine 2s got back to winning ways in league action last Saturday, maintaining good form with a comfortable victory over Cooke 2s in a potentially tricky away fixture at Shaw’s Bridge in Belfast. Coleraine began the game strongly, and soon put siege to the Cooke line. Eventually the […]
A good weekend for Ballymena’s two top teams, with the 1st XV winning 8-6 at Buccaneers and the 2nd XV beating old rivals Coleraine 18-6 to progress to the quarter finals of the Towns’ Cup. Ballymena now move to fourth in the Division 1B table, only one point behind the joint leaders. For lots more […]
Enniskillen faced a tough task in the second round of the Towns Cup last Saturday when they travelled to Qualifying one side Dromore. The sides had already met in an early-season friendly which was embarrassingly one-sided. With Mark Hurst again at 10 Skins welcomed Mattie Maguire for his first game of the season. It was […]
With Feburary brings the approaching 6 Nations competition. Ashbourne RFC has recently announced the upcoming comptition dates. So book off the dates and go down to support! · Ireland and Wales on the 3rd of February 2012 · Ireland and Italy on the 24th of February 2012 · Ireland and Scotland on the 9th of […]
CAVAN 1st XV 13 RANDALSTOWN 1st XV 16 Sometimes you win well. Sometimes you win ugly. Amongst ugly wins this was as ugly as it gets. Randalstown travelled to Cavan in good spirits and with high expectations taking a virtually full strength team to play a side that was undefeated at home since September. At […]
Six! Six! Six Ulster girls on the Irish training Squad six nations panel – the largest representation in numerous years, due to the hugely successful interprovincial campaign Ulster reap the rewards Joy Sparks commented: “Fantastic news! Its clear the Ulster Rugby devlopment structures are working & the game is growing and the future looks really […]
A Heineken Cup Pool match is set to attract a crowd of more than 40,000 for the second successive Saturday when defending champions Leinster and Bath Rugby clash at the Aviva Stadium in a key Pool 3 match as the tournament moves into the second half of the group stages. There were 41,063 fans at […]