The Front Row Union Sport - Representative Friendly: Ulster Clubs U17 33 EIRA U17 0

Representative Friendly: Ulster Clubs U17 33 EIRA U17 0

Jul 29, 2025

—

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.

The Eagle Impact Rugby Academy were once again the visitors to Newforge Sports Complex for a double header of games on Sunday. First up Ulster Clubs U17 provided the opposition for EIRA U17s.

Ulster raced to an early 14-0 lead with tries from prop forwards, Conor McKinney, 3 minutes, and David Nelson, 8 minutes. Both were converted by Ben Todd.

After a brief period of EIRA pressure Charlie Clarke scored in the left corner to make it 19-0 to Ulster.

Ulster continued to apply pressure. Joe Rice de Cruz scored under the posts for Alex Turkington to convert for 26-0 on 22 minutes.

Despite having the lion’s share of possession Ulster failed to capitalise with another score before halftime.

In the second half defences cancelled each other out, in a game played largely between the 22s.

FRU Sports is funded by subscriptions. To read the rest of all our articles and view all our images you will need to Register and Login using the links at the top of this page.

Your support directly affects the number of matches we can cover.