VIRGINIA U/18 AND U/15 GIRLS ENJOY A GREAT DAY OF RUGBY IN ARMAGH Virginia under 18 and under 15 girls travelled to Armagh on Sunday for an afternnon of rugby. Armagh the hosts, Belfast Harlequins, Cloghervalley, Enniskillen, Lurgan, Malone, Monaghan and Virginia all participated in the end of season blitz, and the sun shone for […]
Youth teams through to finals. Both Armagh under 16s and 14s got through to the finals of the cup competition due to be played at Kingspan Stadium on the 2nd May 2015. The under 16s had probably their hardest game of the season against a determined Rainey side but sheer determination and courage in their […]
Armagh Did Offaly ‘Well – A Fan’s View Offaly’s Tullamore, Cork’s Well -Sundays Well that is – and Wicklow’s Greystones were all intent on turning Armagh’s promotion dream into a nightmare. The burden of expectation, the fear of failure and a Tullamore team who had amassed 315 points and 8 try scoring bonus points in […]
‘No Hope” Armagh win promotion into re-structure League All the players,supporters & fans of the Armagh rugby side knew that they had under performed in those crucial Ulster Bank All-Ireland League games earlier in the 2014-15 season. They had appeared to fail to ‘turn up’ against Wanderers. They let poorest sides such as Bruff and […]
Armagh fail to upset Hinch Armagh 2xv entertained newly crowned towns cup winners Ballynahinch 2xv to the palace grounds on Saturday afternoon. Armagh started brightly retaining possession and testing the Hinch defence with Michael Thompson converting a penalty in front of the posts making it 3-0 to Armagh. The visitors responded strongly with two well […]
ARDS 0 ARMAGHrugby 27 Armagh travelled to Hamilton Park to play Ards in the Ulster league knowing they needed a bonus point win to keep the pressure on league leaders Ballynahinch and after a clinical display emerged victorious by 27pts to nil Ards kicked off with the slight breeze behind them but were immediately put […]
Armagh Seconds cruise to victory Armagh seconds played their counterparts from Malone in a second xv league game on Saturday in what turned out to be balmy conditions at the Palace grounds. With Matthews Hooks, Grant Hutchinson and Daniel Reaney making their debuts for the team, the youthful looking backline as it turned out revelled […]