The Front Row Union Sport - Senior Cup: Rainey Endowed 0 Royal School Armagh 2 Semi Final

Senior Cup: Rainey Endowed 0 Royal School Armagh 2 Semi Final

Feb 27, 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.

We caught up with the Ulster Hockey Schoolgirls Senior Cup Semi Final between Rainey Endowed and the Royal School Armagh at Lisnagarvey Hockey Club on Wednesday 26th February.

Such is the dominance of Ulster Schoolgirls Hockey in Ireland these provincial semi finals are probably of a higher standard than the All Ireland Finals next month and it was a pleasure to cover four class sides in the two semi finals.

Rainey Endowed were unfortunate to be drawn against Royal School Armagh, the leading schoolgirls side of the last few season and undefeated in this competition for nearly three years.

Rainey’s Isla Graham, center, came close at the start of the game.

However, Rainey gave it a good go with a lively start that saw Isla Graham come close in the opening minutes and the Magherafelt side pushed forward for most of the first quarter.

Armagh took the lead at the start . . .

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.