The Front Row UnionCoverage of the All Ireland Senior Cup competitions for Men and Women’s Clubs.
For Men’s Clubs the All Ireland Cup was amalgamated with the Bateman Cup in 2011. The Bateman Cup features the four winners of the senior provincial cup competitions.
For Women’s Clubs the competition features Junior and Senior Clubs and splits into three categories, the Cup, Plate and Shield.
Cooke Women powered to a 41 – 12 win against Tullamore in the semi final of the All Ireland Plate on Saturday evening at Shaws Bridge. Cooke got off to the best of starts with Eliza Downey crossing out wide to open the scoring. Further tries followed from Naomi McCullagh and Delores Hughes, all converted […]
Old Belvedere progressed to the final of the All Ireland Cup after a dramatic and entertaining semi-final against Suttonians at Ollie Campbell Park on a perfect evening for rugby in Dublin 4. [pullquote]Report and images by JC Sports Photography[/pullquote] Suttonians started brightly, forcing a couple of early penalties and having the bulk of possession and […]
Old Belvedere returned to D4 with an Energia All Ireland Cup Semi Final place in their back pocket after a first half blitz against Cooke at Shaw’s Bridge on Sunday afternoon. The visitors were quick out of the block as Kathryn Dane sent Fiona Tuite under the posts after four minutes for Jemma Jackson to […]
UL Bohemian returned to Limerick on Saturday evening with an Energia All Ireland Cup Semi Final in the bag after a comprehensive 0 – 48 win at Gibson Park against Malone. Malone continued to add to their experience in their journey of discovery through senior rugby and they were competitive for large parts of this […]
UL Bohemian will now have their sights firmly set on a League and Cup double after picking up their sixth Women’s All Ireland Cup after a hard fought win against Blackrock College at Ashbourne on Saturday afternoon. The clubs will go head to head again in two weeks time in Limerick when they meet in […]
The second final at Ashbourne on Saturday afternoon featured AIL side Cooke RFC Women against promotion chasing Tralee RFC Women with the Belfast girls edging an entertaining encounter in the Shield Final. An all action display from Cooke youngster Vicky Irwin pushed the game in favour of AIL side. Irwin kicked the decisive five points […]
It was a busy day at Ashbourne RFC yesterday, Saturday 30th March, as Ireland Women’s former base hosted the Women’s All Ireland Cup, Plate and Shield finals. First up we had the, first of two, AIL play off semi final rehearsals as Railway Union played Old Belvedere in the Plate Final. The teams are due […]
An impressive Tralee side came out on top against Malone in an entertaining Women’s All Ireland Shield Quarter Final match on Saturday evening at Gibson Park. Malone started the game strongly but, after rebuffing the home sides initial attacks Tralee broke quickly up field for Christine Arthur to open the scoring close to the posts. […]
Blackrock College progress to the semi finals of the All Ireland Cup following a 15 – 0 win against, Dublin rivals, Old Belvedere on Saturday evening at Stradbrook. Irish International Jackie Shiels did the damage, knocking over a first half penalty before scoring a converted try at the start of the second. Meabh Scally completed […]
Suttonians Women RFC caused a major shock in the opening round of the Women’s All Ireland Cup with a 15 – 5 win against AIL side Cooke. The home side set the tone going straight for the line from kick off. Scrum half Kristina Aprahamian crossed for the first and the home side could have chalked […]
St Mary’s College Dublin progressed to the second round of the Women’s All Ireland Cup with a convincing 0 – 36 win against Ballynahinch on Sunday afternoon at Ballymacarn Park. The tone was set with a try from St Marys Niamh Tester in the first minute and the visitors battled their way to the line […]
The Women’s All Ireland Cup kicks off this weekend with three Ulster clubs involved in the opening round which takes place on Sunday 13th January. The leading AIL sides, UL Bohemian, Railway Union and Old Belvedere have been awarded a first round bye, the remaining fixtures are as follows. 13:00 Shannon v Blackrock College Coonagh […]
The Women’s All Ireland Cup Finals were completed this weekend to much publicity and fanfare! Women AIL Cup Final: Railway Union 33 UL Bohemian 3 In the Cup Final, Railway Union took a massive step towards a possible League and Cup double with a convincing 33 – 3 win against their main rivals and defending […]
We popped along to Park Avenue on a cold and damp Friday evening to catch up with the delayed All Ireland Cup Semi Final match between Railway Union and Old Belvedere. Belvo have been the form team in the Women’s All Ireland League over the last couple of months so I was keen to have […]
It’s a pity, as the Women’s Club game in Ireland continues to diminish, that these competitions don’t get a bit more coverage. Mind you we’re ones to complain as we didn’t get to a single cup match over the weekend due to logistical problems and clashes with other competitions we were already scheduled to cover. […]
There are a raft of Women’s All Ireland competitions this weekend as the Cup, Shield and Trophy reach the semi final stages. Well, I say this weekend, but the Railway Union v Old Belvedere Cup match has been pushed back to 9th March. In the Cup, it’s the top four of the All Ireland League […]
The Women’s All Ireland Senior and Junior Cups progressed almost unnoticed last week. Mind you with a few bye’s and and few walkovers both the organisers and the clubs could work a bit harder to raise the profile and the participation in what should be one of Ireland Women’s Rugby showpiece events. It’s a pity […]
Cork outfit Ballincollig returned home with the spoils following a 12 – 36 win against Malone in an entertaining All Ireland Junior Cup match at Gibson Park on Sunday afternoon. The match was closer than the scoreline suggests with the Cork side pulling away in the last quarter. However, the Malone team were unable to […]
Busy old Weekend at FRU headquarters. Not only have we the Schools Cup and Towns Cup on Saturday but the Women’s All Ireland Cup and Shield Quarter finals are up on Sunday. We’ll some of them are. Railway Union and Blackrock re-fixed their game to Wednesday at Park Avenue and Railway came away with the […]
A strong performance from City of Armagh was not enough to prevent Cork Constitution reaching the final of the Bateman Cup for the sixth year in a row. The Division 1A side squeezed through 13-20 in an exciting encounter at The Palace Grounds. Cork Con exerted early pressure and opened the scoring after twelve minutes […]
Cooke ran out comfortable winners against Malone in the rearranged All Ireland Cup Round One match on Wednesday evening at Gibson Park. I had predicted, and indeed hoped for, a closer score but the moving of the fixture probably hit Malone harder than Cooke and the Cooke team decided to give most of their first […]
We are looking to make Tuesday our Women’s Rugby Day on The Front Row Union so, for the remainder of this season we’ll be publishing the bulk of our women’s content on Tuesday mornings, plus we’ll look at bringing in regular features on the Women’s game. Unfortunately, we had planned to have two AIL Cup […]
The Women’s All Ireland Cup Final was held in Dubarry Park, Athlone, on Sunday afternoon between UL Bohemians and Blackrock. These teams have met already twice this season in the All Ireland League with UL Bohemians coming out on top, but Blackrock looked keen to make amends. Report by Aishling O’Connell. We did find an Ulster connection […]