Despite Donegal II XV visited Limepark Armoy on Saturday looking to disrupt Armoy’s league title dreams. With Armoy 4 points ahead of their closest rivals and with potentially another match to play ,a win was vital for them to secure the league crown. As Donegall stepped of their team bus Armoy captain Gareth Christie knew […]
Newry climb to second place in the Kukri Qualifying League Table (S3) after another impressive win this time against former second spot holders Donegal. Out of the 9 league games this season Newry have won 6 and only lost 3. Newry put a good win over Donegal with Colie Stewart and Patrick Wentworth going over […]
Donegal 1st XV 24 Randalstown 1st XV 15 Day and night is about the only way to describe the difference in the Randalstown 1st and 2nd half performances in Donegal on Saturday afternoon. Having started in determined fashion with only some stalwart Donegal defence preventing an early try ‘Town then imploded and for most of […]
Carrick U 15 boys paid tribute in a minute’s silence to their friend and rugby playing colleague Ben Robinson who so tragically died early last week following a medallion rugby match last Saturday. The Carrick club’s games lost much of their lustre in such circumstances but in response to this tragic accident the boys of […]
On Friday evening, the Carrick 2nd XV comprehensively defeated Instonians III by 44 points to nil. Glen Picken scored a hat-trick of tries and was chosen as “man of the match”. The other tries came from Craig Clarke, Johnny Sheriff, Johnny McIlwaine and Craig Jordan. Ricky Moore kicked a penalty and three conversions. This was […]
Randalstown 1st XV 39 Donegal 5 After a slightly shaky start Randalstown settled quickly to the task and ran in easy winners in the end at Neillsbrook on Saturday afternoon. Having been awarded a penalty in their own 22 ‘Town worked their way up the park courtesy of Coulter, McGlade and Montgomery and were rewarded […]
This month the Donegal Community Rugby Project is looking forward to a visit by Richard Hodges one of the Welsh 7’s World Cup Winning coaches from 2009. Richard will be delivering a training session to all interested senior players in Donegal in preparation for the Carrick 7’s tournament to be held on the May bank […]
Over 400 primary school pupils were involved in the Letterkenny RFC TAG Rugby Festival last week, one of 6 going on around the county this month. TAG MAD at Letterkenny The blitz was attended by 15 schools from the region and based on participation of the non contact form of Rugby. These blitzes have been […]
Last week the Donegal Project staff were busy running skills camps for youth players in the County. Philip Brady, Adam Keys and Johnny Quigley ran the sessions at Inishowen, Donegal Town, Letterkenny and Ballyshannon Rugby Clubs. The sessions were based on improving the basics of handling, decision making and contact skills.