September 17, 2011 Banbridge and Ards went into this Ulster League game both looking for their first win of the season. But it was clear from the opening exchanges why the North Down side had already shipped heavy defeats at the hands of Armagh (47-13) and Ballymena (71-3) as Bann began to run up the […]
Hats of to the Women, senior and youth to a girl were superb! Hard fought fierce battles ragged across two pitches for 4 hours as teams. Lines stepping up, lineout tactics, strong running, off loads, line breaks, defensive re-alignment, having fun and concentrating in defence. It is safe to say we are ready in Ulster. […]
Munster U18 Schools – 24 Ulster U18 Schools – 19 A try from Munster Schools’ winger Greg O’Shea four minutes from the end of normal time snatched victory for the hosts in the final Inter Provincial match of the series. Ulster dominated the opening exchanges of this match with early runs by Ross Adair and […]
Saturday 24th September was the last weekend of the age grade Interprovincial series of games involving schoolboy players. Quite a number of schools were missing their Inter Pro players but this did not prevent their teams from putting on good performances. Grosvenor Grammar School and Royal School, Dungannon both had players away with age grade […]
Ulster outhalf Ian Humphreys has been forced to withdraw from the starting team to face the Ospreys tomorrow at the Liberty Stadium after he suffered a recurrence of a shoulder injury picked up against Cardiff last week. As a result, Paddy Jackson is promoted to start in the number 10 jersey and development player James […]
After eight weeks of fun and sportsmanship this year’s Ulster Rugby Summer Camps, sponsored by retailer Centra, recently came to a successful close. There were fifteen camp venues province-wide this summer, with almost 1,100 boys and girls aged 6 to 13 years taking part. Each camp lasted five days, during which participants were closely supervised […]
Ulster Schools v Munster Schools on Saturday 24th September 2011 at Thomond Park, Limerick Kick off 3.00pm Ulster Schools Team 15. Ross Adair (Sullivan Upper) 14. David Busby (Portadown College) 13. John McClure (RBAI) 12. Mark Best (Campbell College) 11. Neil Burns (Foyle & Londonderry College) 10. Justin Rea (Down HS) 9. Peter Weir (Wallace […]
Brian McLaughlin has named his preliminary squad for the RaboDirect PRO12 clash with Ospreys this Sunday at the Liberty Stadium (kick off 16.30pm). Darren Cave has been ruled out after aggravating an old hamstring injury during Friday’s win over Cardiff. The injury kept him out of action for a large chunk of last season but […]
Round 4 of the RaboDirect PRO12 kicks off on Friday night with the champions and current leaders, Munster, travelling to the team they deposed from the top of the table, Cardiff Blues. CLICK HERE For 12 page PDF Review Of Stats For every TEAM Munster’s defensive record is such that they haven’t conceded a try […]
We caught with Philip recently at the Belfast Harlequins Ladies 7s. An excellent day and Philip was fairly busy throughout. [youtube gT1RUAQ5JSs]