I thought it would be a decisive weekend for Ulster Women’s rugby and it certainly was, just not in the way I thought it would be.
I imagined I would be sitting here today congratulating Cooke on securing Division 1 status for yet another season and I’d be looking forward to a mouth watering clash between Garda and Queen’s University to see if the students could win AIL2N in their first season.
Unfortunately Cooke went down 19 – 13 against Blackrock and now face the daunting prospect of securing a point of some description against league leaders UL Bohemian to secure their premier status and the shock 10 – 8 loss by, AIL 2N leaders, Belfast Harlequins at Navan means that Queen’s University were crowned league winners a week in advance thanks to their 81 – 0 demolition of Cavan in our featured match at the Dub.
It was always going to be difficult match for Cavan who were only able to field fourteen players, four of whom were novices, but they were . . .
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