Grey skies and rain certainly wasn’t enough to get anyone down on Sunday 17th when the Ballymena Bears hosted four other teams from across the province at their blitz day. The teams formed up at 10am at Eaton Park and after a quick warm up, games for both over and under twelve’s kicked off. The […]
Pictured: “Great to see our U13’s enjoying themselves in Dublin yesterday supporting Ireland v Samoa. Thank you to Jonny W and the coaching team for organising it”all. Head Coach Ian Flack takes his Portadown Panthers’ squad to Eaton Park Ballymena on Sunday 17th November to participate in the Ballymena Bears’ hosted Tag Rugby Festival. This […]
Ballymena Bears travelled to Finn Valley RFC, Stranola at the weekend to help start “the Errigal Eagles” a brand new club in the Donegal area catering for young people with learning difficulties. The Bears travelled in style for the 2 hour trip with the help of an Ulster Rugby mini bus driven by Ulster Branch […]
The Ballymena Bears travelled to Cookstown’s Mid Ulster Sports Arena on 29th June for their last session of the 12/13 season. The Bears were invited to represent the sport of rugby at the annual family fun day along with representatives from across the county in a number of other sports including soccer, tennis and gaelic […]
Despite the rainy weather a huge contingent of over 20 Newforge Taggers were welcomed to Eaton Park on Sunday to play tag rugby. With a near maximum turnout of Ballymena Bears it meant that over 40 players took to the pitches and demonstrated some fantastic rugby skills. With the clubhouse opened, the Taggers began the […]
Four special needs teams; Ballymena Bears, Harberton Seahorses, Newforge Taggers and Seaside Sharkies (Donaghadee) were the latest teams to participate in Half Time Rugby at Ravenhill, sponsored bt Domino’s Pizza. They took to the pitch during the interval of the Ulster v Dragons game last Friday…. CLICK HERE for more pitch shots
Stand Up for the Ballymena Bears Friday night 12th April and the Ulster team were at home playing the Newport Dragons but more importantly the Ballymena Bears were playing the Donaghadee Seaside Sharkies at half time on the hallowed turf. The night began early at 6pm with all 12 of the selected Bears team meeting […]
Ballymena Bears Tag Rugby starts again on Sun 3rd March 10am at Eaton Park, home of Ballymena Rugby. The Bears were established in 2012 to offer tag rugby to young people with learning difficulties, we currently have 15 players who range in age from 6 to 20+ and we meet every other Sunday. We would […]
A beautiful Autumn day and what better way to spend it than playing tag rugby and that’s just what the Bears did down at the Newforge Taggers home ground in Belfast on Sunday. A strong contingent of Bears travelled, joining in to begin with on the Taggers warm up. New and old friends greeted the […]