Heavy Ulster influence sees Ireland in good shape heading into World Cup As teams finalise their preparations for the Rugby World Cup, the focus is already on which nations will be battling it out in the latter stages of the tournament. While it has traditionally been the three southern hemisphere powerhouses – New Zealand, Australia […]
Travelling around as we do to clubs and schools to each community of players and supporters in Ulster is constantly a demonstration of commitment, togetherness, intense concentration, love of the game and great organised clinical rugby, the implementation of scrums, rucks, lineouts, attack and defense off loads, we shimmys, put good solid concentration on tackling […]
Almost £14,000 was raised for two good causes at the Oliver Turkington Memorial Dinner which took place at Coleraine Inst last month. The event – addressed by legendary British and Irish Lions captain Willie John McBride and compered by local comedy duo Grimes and McKee – was organised to celebrate the life of Moira man […]
Larne Victorious in Donegal The AM Nexday Larne 1st XV travelled to the other side of the country for their Qualifying 3 league match against Donegal Town RFC. The long bus journey meant the Larne men didn’t have their usual pre-match warm up and they started the game in slow fashion which allowed the home […]
Good form continues at Portadown Bangor claimed another big league scalp at Portadown where they produced an excellent team performance to secure a bonus point win by 22-27. With the only change from last week’s winning line-up against Clogher Valley being Oran McIlmurry – still recovering from a nasty blow to the head – hopes […]
Another good win for 2nds at Ballymoney by Roger Corbett With the 1sts game postponed as a result of not having a referee available, the 2nds took centre stage against Ballymoney, winning by 12-26. With the 1sts game having to be postponed as a result of not having a referee available, the 2nds game against […]
Nice touch by the U17’s, presenting outgoing coach Ricky Farr with a ball signed by the team following this morning’s 19-15 victory at Lurgan RFC. Ricky has been coaching a number of this squad all the way from mini-rugby days and today was his final game in charge. — with Ricky Farr…….. :- https://www.facebook.com/LisburnRugby?ref=ts&fref=ts The […]