U18 Girls Interprovincials: Ulster 10 Leinster 5

—

by

John McMurtry

We are currently carrying out a necessary behind-the-scenes upgrade to how images are stored and delivered on The Front Row Union Sports. With over 770,000 images on the site, we are moving our entire image library to a dedicated cloud storage service. This means images will load faster for you, regardless of where you are in the world, and the site will be more reliable overall.

As we are working on three separate versions of images during the offload process, the site cache sometimes struggles to keep up with which version to display and occasionally post grid images or complete galleries may fail to appear. This is a temporary side effect of the migration process — the image exists and is safe, it is simply in the process of being moved to its new home and identified as being there. A refresh of the page will usually bring them back, however, if it does not please contact john@thefrontrowunion.com stating clearly the post address and we will restore it as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes and appreciate your patience.

We expect the bulk of the image migration to be completed by the end of June 2026, with a fully upgraded version of the site ready to launch in August 2026. Once that work is done, the site will be noticeably faster, images will load more reliably, and you will not see any further disruption of this kind. Thank you for your continued support of The Front Row Union Sports.

Ulster U18 Girls got their competitive season off to the best of starts with a 10 – 5 win against Leinster at City of Armagh Rugby Club on Saturday night. The game marked the first ever competitive fixture for the girls at this age grade, and about time too!

I’m pleased that the Women’s U18 management convinced me to go along to this fixture as it was a match that reaffirmed my love of rugby, played as it should be. The professional men’s game tends to be a bit formulaic and overly reliant on the physical side of the game, however, while there were plenty of hard hits, in this match both teams concentrated on their highly polished skill sets making the ball do the work in an enthralling match.

Neve Jones claimed the first score of the game.

opened the scoring for Ulster after Vikky Irwin and had punched through the Leinster midfield, the only score in the first half.

Eimear Corri breaks from deep to reply for Leinster

The impressive  replied for Leinster with a solo effort from the middle of the park, the rangy winger outstripping the Ulster defence to go over in the corner.

Ulster try scorers Kelly McCormill and Neve Jones celebrate after the game.

Ulster countered almost immediately with Irwin once again taking play into the Leinster half and showed great strength to go over with ten minutes to go.

It was a nervous ten minutes for those watching but Ulster held out reasonably comfortably to claim their first historic win, sparking an impressive volume of high pitch squeals at the final whistle! 🙂 Fantastic!

Ulster Women U18:  Ciara Browne, Kelly McCormill, Leah McGoldrick, Brittany Hogan, Lucinda Kinghan, , Carla Rafferty, Emma Kearney, Sara Whitley, Neve Jones, Hannah Beattie, Caoilinn McCormack, Bethany McDowell, Claire Boles, Storm Cobain. Replacements: Grace Shrestha, Megan Brodie, Tommy Millar, Keelin Brady, Natalie Kinghan, Lisa Mullen, Ellie Ingram, Dolores Hughes.

Coaches: Davy Chambers (Forwards), Charlie Farrell (Assistant), Zoe Templeton (Backs). Manager: Jemma Jackson.

IF in Doubt, sit them out

Download the UK Concussion Guidelines for Grassroots Sport Here

Corrections

Drop us a note below if there are any corrections required in this article.

← Back

Thank you for your response. ✨

Rugby Latest