The Rugby Faculty provides schools and clubs with the tools to develop their own rugby “curriculum” to help each player and coach gain the best rugby experience and training available. While each programme will contain the same core principles, each will be unique to reflect the club or school’s vision, ambitions, resources, commitment and culture. […]
A superb year and the Ulster Branch president made a massive contribution to the accelerated development of Ulster Rugby into the one of the No1 Rugby Clubs in the world. An Ards clubman Robin Cole has given an enormous amount of time and energy and fulfilled the role of Ulster Branch President superbly. Ards rugby […]
The annual Ards Rugby Club Youth Player’s Awards presentations were held at Hamilton Park on Saturday 18th May, Ulster Branch President and fellow Ards man Robin Cole presented this season’s awards. CLICK HERE for the pictures Players from the Under 15’s, Under 17’s and Under 19’s met at the clubhouse in the afternoon and played […]
The North West Talent Project is organised in partnership with National Governing Bodies (Ulster Rugby), Derry City Council and Sport Northern Ireland. A number of coaches from the North West of Ulster are entering into the second year of this coach development initiative…… for the full story CLICK HERE
The first round draws have been made for the Crawford Cup, Forster Cup, Gordon West Cup, McCrea Cup, First Trust Senior Cup and Millar McCall Wylie Junior Cup… Please click HERE to view the draws in full
FUNERAL AND SERVICE OF REMEMBERENCE As it is not anticipated that the family funeral service on Wednesday will be able to accommodate all of the people from the rugby fraternity wishing to attend, the IRFU Ulster Branch will be holding a Service of Remembrance at Ravenhill on Sunday 23rd September at 3.00pm. Further details regarding […]
Congratulations to Robin Cole who was voted in as President of the Ulster Branch…. Hamilton Park was the venue for this years Branch AGM. The club was packed almost to capacity on Thursday evening with representatives from Clubs all over the province in attendance. The executive committe and club members offer their congratulations and best […]
5 Tyrone schools took part in the Ulster Branch Girls Schools Cup qualifier at Omagh recently. The 10 a side non contact rugby competition has been growing rapidly over the last few years and with the final being played at Ravenhill it gives girls new to the sport the opportunity for competitive matches and silverware. […]
For 150+ Pictures courtesy of www.glenophoto.com CLICK HERE OPHIR SENIOR DAY PICTURES LINKS CLICK HERE FOR 183 Pictures CLICK HERE For another 246! Pictures Courtesy of Gleno Photo (proprietor David Irvine can be contacted on georgedirvine@aol.com) OPHIR U19 DAY PICTURES LINKS We managed to get over 400 pictures including team, spectators and action shots ~ […]
The course was delivered by Senior Community Rugby Officers Darren McGuigan and Brian O’Shaughnessy: For full story and lots of pictures – CLICK HERE