Schools: Rugby Rising Final Day

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We caught up with Sullivan Upper School and Royal School Armagh on their final day at Rugby Rising in Donnybrook on Friday.

is an All Ireland festival of schools rugby organised by and which featured six boys schools teams and two girls sides, the latter playing a featured game on Wednesday. The competition stretched for all of Halloween week with match days on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the teams were treated to talks and presentations on Tuesday and Thursday.

The competition featured four Dublin sides, St Mary’s College, Wesley College, CBC Monkstown Park and The King’s Hospital School alongside the two Ulster sides.

The results over the week are shown below.

Mon 29th Oct 2018
St Mary’s College1210Wesley College
CBC Monkstown Park2621Royal School Armagh
The King’s Hospital3412Sullivan Upper School
Wed 31st Oct 2018
Wesley College (W)531Newbridge College (W)
St Mary’s College1510Sullivan Upper School
Wesley College720Royal School Armagh
The King’s Hospital1731CBC Monkstown Park
Fri 2nd Nov 2018
The King’s Hospital1916Wesley College
Sullivan Upper School3319CBC Monkstown Park
St Mary’s College1215Royal School Armagh

Our galleries from the final day’s play can be found below. Photo credit – Bob Given Photography

2018-11-02 Royal School Armagh 15 St Mary’s College 12 (Rugby Rising)


2018-11-02 The Kings Hospital 19 Wesley College 16 (Rugby Rising)


2018-11-02 CBC Monkstown 33 Sullivan Upper 19 (Rugby Rising)


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