City of Derry defended their home record and in the process crashed the much favoured Harlequins outfit out the Ulster Senior Cup. Although Derry thoroughly deserved their 24-22 victory at Judges Road the victory looked unlikely until two brilliant individual efforts that sealed the comeback! The encounter mirrored the previous week in the early quarter […]
Randalstown 2nds opened their league campaign under new management and returned a creditable 55 – 18 victory over their Holywood counterparts. It didn’t take ‘Town long to settle into their stride on Saturday afternoon and they were quickly rewarded with a penalty which went unconverted. This was followed up by the first of 9 tries […]
Enniskillen took this game by the scruff of it’s neck early on despite a freshening breeze, which probably favoured the visitors in the opening half, and took an early lead through the boot of James McIntyre inside the first five minutes after some early pressure on the Ballyclare line. ‘Skins were showing some great enterprise, […]
From the look of these pictures, it looks like a fierce battle took place between these sides. We were sent 108 pictures and you can view them by clicking the link below. CLICK HERE To view 108 pictures taken by local photographger Stephen Hetherington (www.cloghervalleyphotography.com) CLICK HERE For clogher Valley v Donegal Rugby
Ballymena Academy entertained Wallace High School on Saturday morning with both teams missing several players involved with representative squads. From start to finish, the game was completely dominated by the referee’s whistle, with neither side able to establish any sort of pattern or dominance. Not surprisingly, it was a penalty that led to the opening […]
With two U19 Inter Provincial games being played against Leinster U19’s at Dungannon Rugby Club a number of schools were without some front line players when their teams took the field on Saturday 10th. The U19 “A” team lost by 36-6 to a strong Leinster team despite the best efforts of players such as Stuart […]
With the recent visit to Armagh in the Ulster League and the defeat of 47 points to 13 still fresh in their memory the Ards team must have had some serious sessions on the training field and some very strong words from their coach, Mervyn Tweed. From the kick-off the visitors played with a vigour […]
Ulster produced a stuttering performance in the sweltering heat at Stadio Zaffanella, but came away with a second consecutive victory in the RaboDirect PRO12. Outhalves Naas Olivier and Ian Humphreys were given early chances to get on the scoreboard but both players missed with penalty attempts from relatively straightforward positions. Ulster were intent on playing […]