Lisburn 3 Randalstown 16 Randalstown travelled to meet Lisburn at Blaris missing a number of players due to injury and unavailability. This meant a call up for Philip Steele one of the young up and coming players in the club, and another appearance for Matty Mawhinney in the firsts backline. The game, played in blustery […]
Instonians 1st XV 27 Donaghadee 1st XV 7 The game started in reasonable conditions with Donaghadee having the wind on their backs at Shaws Bride. From the kick-off Instonians went immediately on the attack and after completing a mumber of phases scored their first try of the game. In the next passages of play the […]
Donaghadee 1st XV 22 Carrickfergus 1st XV 0 Donaghadee took a break from league action at the weekend keen to transfer their good league from into the quarter final of the Towns Cup. Beaten finalists in last year’s competition ‘The Dee’ welcomed Qualifying two side Carrickfergus to Donaldson Park who had already taken the scalp […]
COOKE 35 DONAGHADEE 13 Despite the wintry conditions prevailing around the province conditions were excellent at Shaws Bridge for this Qualifying One relegation battle between Cooke and Donaghadee. The Dee started strongly but Cooke broke on loose ball with five minutes played and a fluffed clearance enabled Cooke to break on the blind side to […]
Tenacious, dogged, persistent and fast, wolfack youth rugby in Ulster is certainly experiencing a whirlwind of positivity as the athletes determination and focus is exempliary. Attending training and working so hard to be ready for each game. The systems are excellent and the clubs bring massive experience to the table as the young adults play […]
DONAGHADEE 7 CLOGHER VALLEY 12 This season Donaghadee have been guilty of producing performances of inconsistent levels, but the squad will have gone into Saturday’s fixture against Clogher Valley knowing that only a very good performance was likely to be enough to get anything from this particular fixture. With a swirling wind to their back […]
CIYMS 14 DONAGHADEE 24 Donaghadee arrived at Belmont to the news that blindside flanker Richard Martindale had had to cry off due to sickness and, allied to the fact that open side Chris Hamilton had not yet recovered from injury, the portents were not good for another must win game for the Dee against a […]
Donaghadee 1st XV 8 Ballymoney 1st XV 24 Donaghadee welcomed Ballymoney for the key Christmas fixture on a dark and dank afternoon at Donaldson Park brightened by a pre-match warm-up game between the Mini Sections of both Clubs. The Dee were hampered by the loss of Richard Martindale and Chris Hamilton through unavailability and injury […]
Donaghadee 2nd XV 17 Ballymena 4th XV 12 Donaghadee II welcomed Ballymena IV to Donaldson Park in an important clash for both teams in Junior League 4 last Saturday. On this occasion the Dee men started really well and within five minutes of the start the in-form Andy McGrugan broke down the left wing with […]
DROMORE 1st XV 27 DONAGHADEE 1st XV 7 After the tremendous performance against CIYMS last week hopes were high that Donaghadee could take at least something from their trip to Barban Hill in the game against Dromore in the lastest round of Qualifying One. The Dee side lined up with the same personnel as last […]