Niall O’Connor

The FRU

Under 20′s anounced for Leinster Inter Provincial.
Ulster rugby have released the starting line up for what is likely to be the Under 20’s Inter Provincial decider against Leinster. Following on from last Friday’s excellent 20-15 victory over Munster in Cork, Ulster have made one change to their starting line up for the game against Leinster this Friday [Read more ...]
More Ladies Rugby!
Just not such a busy weekend this time round but busy enough. A Fabulous Friday Fun Fest at Ravers was followed by a wet and windy Saturday afternoon, scuppering my plans to cover City of Derry v Quins as my Kodak Instamatic doesn’t function too well in the wet! On [Read more ...]
Ulster Squad for Aironi.
Ulster Rugby named the Ulster Squad for the Aironi match this afternoon. Ulster travel to play Magners League newcomers Aironi in Italy this weekend and Coach Brian McLaughlin has named his squad… Aironi opened their Magners League account last weekend with an away trip to Munster but the Italian side [Read more ...]
Tears, Tantrums and Bedtime
Friday morning on the UAFC messageboard and the grown-ups plus the not so grown- ups couldn’t keep still in class due to the pending Magners kick off involving Ulster and the Ospreys. Ways of wiling away the hours before kick-off were being discussed, invented and implemented, whilst others posted in [Read more ...]
Predictions League Week 2
You can view Week 1 Results here. There were a few full houses last week with several punters shrewd enough to know to bank on the home wins at this time of the season. Will it be the same this week? Our tip is that Ulster and Connacht will buck [Read more ...]
Inter-Pro: Munster U20 15 Ulster U20 20
Ulster U20′s got their Inter Pro series off to a flying start with a hard fought 20 -15 victory in Cork. The scores came form a Stephen Irvine try, a penalty try and Patrick Jackson added two conversions and two penalties. The win puts Ulster in a strong position for [Read more ...]
Downey bags a brace in Ireland win!
Ulster and Ireland’s Eliza Downey bagged a brace of tries as Ireland finished of their Women’s World Cup Campaign with an emphatic 32 – 8 win over Scotland to claim 7th place in the World standings. It was a pleasing end to the tournament for a much improved Ireland [Read more ...]
View from the Prom: Ulster 27 Ospreys 26
Fan-flipping-tastic. I honestly didn’t see this one coming. Before the game I was predicting a 10 – 15 point defeat to Ulster and only expecting to pick up 6 to 8 points throughout September. I was fully expecting the team to kick on throughout the rest of the season and [Read more ...]
Press Release: Ulster sign Emerick and D’Arcy
Ulster Rugby has today confirmed that Paul Emerick (30) will be joining the club on a short-term contract (3 months) as a direct replacement for the injured Andrew Trimble. Trimble sustained a finger injury whilst on tour with Ireland earlier this summer and is not expected to return to rugby until [Read more ...]
More URSC Stuff! Biarritz and Treviso.
Our friends at the URSC have asked us to highlight some of their latest correspondence! Consider it done. URSC has just received word that our guests of honour at the URSC tent on at the Ospreys match tomorrow night are: Ian Humphreys and Andy Kyriacou. For a chance to [Read more ...]