The Front Row Union Sport - Interprovincial: Ulster Schools finish off in style.

Interprovincial: Ulster Schools finish off in style.

Aug 26, 2019

—

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 Schools finished of the U18 Interprovincial Festival in Limerick in fine style with a 48 – 10 win against IQ Rugby on Sunday afternoon.

IQ Rugby Opened the scoring with a try from their out half Theo Smerdon before Ulster cut lose with tries from Jude Postlethwaite, Ethan Bryce and Callum Smyton, all converted by Ross McKay to give Ulster a 21 – 5 lead at half time.

Callum Smyton goes over for his second try during Ulster’s win against IQ Rugby

The tries continued in the second half with Finn Rankin crossing before Smyton and Postlethwaite completed a brace each.

A good line sees Jude Postlethwaite end up between the posts for his second try against IQ Rugby

IQ Rugby scored a consolation try towards the end through Jacob Richards before Ulster finished off in style with a try from Tim Baillie before Smyton crossed for his hat-trick. Bryce added a conversion to take the final score to Ulster Schools 48 IQ Rugby 10.

We caught up with Ulster Schools coach Willie Faloon after the game to talk about Ulster Schools performance over the tournament. Click below to hear the interview.