Donaghadee 34 – 3 Bangor Fixture: Rodney Gray Cup Date: Saturday 27th August 2011 KO: 12:30 Bangor lose out in Rodney Gray Cup Despite the encouraging performance last week against CIYMS, Bangor were soundly beaten by local adversaries Donaghadee for the Rodney Gray Cup. Donaghadee’s dominant forward play combined with a variety of errors by […]
The new rugby season kicked off at Ballymacarn Park on Wednesday evening when a Ballynahinch XV played and Invitation XV in memory of Capt. Mark Hale who was killed in action in Afghanistan. The Hinch side made up from players representing the 2’s 3’s and 4’s faced a powerful looking 2 Rifle’s outfit which featured […]
Last Saturday Donaghadee hosted Bangor in the Rodney Gray Cup which would be the last warm up game for both teams before the start of the new season’s league action. Although these two teams have met frequently in recent seasons this was the first in which Donaghadee would have been considered favourites to win, if […]
Dungannon opened the defence of the Stevenson Shield with a 58-17 nine try win over Instonians at a balmy Shaw’s Bridge. Dungannon attacked from the start and gained their first try on five minutes when Jason Bloomfield fed the white booted Adam Duhig who crashed over. 0 – 5 Two minutes later former Banbridge starlet […]
CLogher Valley entertained Rainey old Boys in what has become an annual fixture in memory of one of th ekey founders of Clogher Valley Rugby Club Derek Lee. Click Here for the pictures & big thank you to Stephen Hetherington – Clogher Valley Photography. MAIN PICTURE: Wilfred Bothwell hands over the ‘Derek Lee’ Memorial Trophy […]
City of Derry RFC V Banbridge Saturday 27th August 2011@ Judges Road, Kick-off; 3pm City of Derry Rugby Club start their new season this Saturday at home to Banbridge in the Ulster Senior League with a 3pm Kick-off. The game will be preceded by City of Derry 2nd XV playing their Banbridge counterparts in the […]