Nutty Krust Tournament semi-final 2 Omagh v Dromore report 15-04-2015 The second semi-final of the 2015 Nutty Krust U18 Tournament took place at Chamber’s Park when Omagh RFC U18’s met Dromore RFC U18’s. The game was played in front of a good crowd of supporters from both clubs all of whom seemed to enjoy and […]
Malone hold on to win a close encounter against Shannon, the final result saw Malone take the win by 37-34 in their final game of the season. With over 200 people attending a pre match lunch at Gibson Park, both teams did not disappoint the spectators as they put on a thrilling display of entertaining […]
Instonians won the toss and elected to play into the strong wind in the first half. The first 20 minutes were a scrappy affair. Connemara’s young side made several knocks on or misjudged the wind kicking the ball long, all to give possession back to Instonians. Even in this early scrappy phase it was clear […]
Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV were beaten by 15 points to 9 away to Section 2 winners Omagh in their last League match of the season on Saturday 11 April. Although the destination of the title was already decided, and Carrick confirmed in second place, before Saturday’s encounter, the match was fiercely contested and tempers boiled […]
City of Derry RFC 27pts, Seapoint 12pts Match Report by; Moss Dineen City of Derry Rugby Clubs travelled to South Dublin on Saturday last to play Seapoint in their last All Ireland League Fixture of the season. The objective was to defeat the home team and score four try’s in the process to have any […]
Ballymena 45 Buccaneers 0 The final game of the AIL campaign at Eaton Park between Ballymena and Buccaneers was never going to generate the kind of excitement and tension that saw the culmination of last year’s programme which resulted in last gasp promotion for Ballymena. The two teams in action on Saturday had nothing to […]
Armagh Did Offaly ‘Well – A Fan’s View Offaly’s Tullamore, Cork’s Well -Sundays Well that is – and Wicklow’s Greystones were all intent on turning Armagh’s promotion dream into a nightmare. The burden of expectation, the fear of failure and a Tullamore team who had amassed 315 points and 8 try scoring bonus points in […]
‘No Hope” Armagh win promotion into re-structure League All the players,supporters & fans of the Armagh rugby side knew that they had under performed in those crucial Ulster Bank All-Ireland League games earlier in the 2014-15 season. They had appeared to fail to ‘turn up’ against Wanderers. They let poorest sides such as Bruff and […]
Armagh fail to upset Hinch Armagh 2xv entertained newly crowned towns cup winners Ballynahinch 2xv to the palace grounds on Saturday afternoon. Armagh started brightly retaining possession and testing the Hinch defence with Michael Thompson converting a penalty in front of the posts making it 3-0 to Armagh. The visitors responded strongly with two well […]
ARDS 0 ARMAGHrugby 27 Armagh travelled to Hamilton Park to play Ards in the Ulster league knowing they needed a bonus point win to keep the pressure on league leaders Ballynahinch and after a clinical display emerged victorious by 27pts to nil Ards kicked off with the slight breeze behind them but were immediately put […]