We caught up with the new initiative in the U18’s girls program where clubs have been amalgamated into regional Barbarian sides in order to get more 15 a side rugby under their belts.
I believe there will be four Barbarian sides North East, North West, East and South together with, the two stalwarts of the girls U18 programme, Virginia and Enniskillen who will field their club sides.
It’s something we’ve been advocating for a few seasons now and while there is still a long way to go it’s a promising start.
In Sunday’s game at Randalstown RFC the East side (Cooke, Malone and Larne I believe) came out on top against the North East representatives (Ballyclare, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Randalstown) by 5 tries to 3 . . .
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