After a well-needed break from competitive rugby over the Christmas and New Year period, Bangor travelled to Carrickfergus for their first round match in this season’s Towns Cup. Thankfully the gales and rain from earlier in the week had gone, and the conditions were as good as one might expect at this time of year. […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV lost their first round Towns Cup encounter with Bangor by 24 points to 3 at Tom Simms Memorial Park on Saturday 7 January. Although an improvement on the heavy away League defeat against Bangor earlier in the season, the manner of the Carrick defeat was disapponting. A number of defensive […]
Grosvenor hosted BHS on Saturday which on current form should have been a straight forward victory but it was far from that. The match was a hard fought match with no quarter given and with nothing in it at the start. High School took the lead after a period of pressure Grosvenor conceded a penalty […]
On Friday night Ballyclare R.F.C. President Willie Shaw was host at the Cloughan clubhouse for a very enjoyable Annual Presidents Night. There was a turnout of eighty with a good number of Presidents from several other clubs but at least three of the local clubs were absent. Also present were a number of sponsors and […]
Annual Christmas Exiles v Club Select Comments (0) Share0Tweet0 The annual Christmas game between the Exiles and a Club Select took place on Tuesday 27th December at Hamilton Park as a pre-cursor to the Ulster League game between Ards and Ballynahinch This year the game took on the extra significance of being played for the […]
Banbridge proved the equal of Ballymena for long periods in the game, without really threatening the try line. Ballymena had scored two good tries through Frazer and Pritchard ,and led 17-6, but a mistake in midfield gave Banbridge a position to drive over for a late try. For official Ballymena RFC pictures click HERE [youtube […]