England beat Australia 15-10 in a breathless final at the Hong Kong Stadium to take the second IRB Women’s Sevens Challenge Cup title. Inspired by two tries from captain Michaela Staniford, England beat the defending women’s Hong Kong champions Canada in their semi final and then beat Australia, who had themselves overpowered USA in the […]
Ulster welcomed back skipper Johann Muller for the first time since Round 6 of the Heineken Cup in last weekend’s hard earned victory over Benetton Treviso. Their final outing before heading south to Limerick next month will be another ‘Italian Job’ at Ravenhill on Friday night when they host Aironi Rugby. [youtube FPL9_iGBWgI] Four of […]
The event held at Lurgan RFC hosted the best of local talent from Lurgan College, Banbridge Academy, Friends School and Portadown College. The tournament, now in its sixth year, was sponsored by Sliderobes (NI) and was played in a ‘round-robin’ format, with short 15minutes games. First up were Lurgan College and Friends School and a […]
The IV XV have progressed into their second successive Forster Cup Final thanks to the cultured boot of Cormac Convery. This was a tight match with the dreaded yellow card having an affect on the outcome. Banbridge took the lead with a penalty that Cormac matched before kicking Dungannon into a 6-3 lead on the […]
All roads lead to Ravenhill this Easter. The 2nd XV rounded off a good season on Saturday when they beat Dungannon 3”s in the semi-final of the Crawford Cup. In a nervous semi-final they came out winners 8 – 16. Ballymoney took the lead after 10 minutes with Sturat Nevin converted try and then a […]
CRFC U15s -74 Armagh U15s -0. On a glorious morning for running rugby at Tom Simms Memorial Park Carrick U15s put on a show of great running rugby to comprehensively beat Armagh U15s. With several positional & personnel changes due to illness injury & availability it fell to John Stewart to captain the side & […]
ON THE ROAD BONUS FOR RAINEY A superb scrummaging display by the pack,allied to the sorcery of dynamic scrum-half Peter Sciascia,helped Rainey Old Boys to a bonus point 31-14 victory over mid-table opponents Boyne at a sunny Shamrock Lodge,a result which keeps them on course for their highest-ever finish in the AIL.The Drogheda club were […]