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[pullquote]Report and picture credit – Davie Hayes Photography[/pullquote] It will have been a long drive home to Galway following a tough defeat in the Energia All Ireland League 2B to Belfast Harlequins. A confident performance saw Quins come out on top against the Connacht side. Christian Bennison goes over for Quins against Galwegians. An early […]
One of the great advantages of what we do is that at the end of a long day and you are soaked, wind blown and freezing, is that you get to record a match like this and your own little piece of history. When Malone women go on to win the AIL in the next […]
Continuing from Part 1. Old Belvedere and Cooke had completed their Pool matches, both recording two wins from two. This left the following matches to decide who would join them in the semi finals. Match 5: Blackrock v Galwegians (Pool A) Match 6: Cooke v UL Bohemian (Pool B) The results and galleries from the […]
Six Women’s All Ireland sides competed in the inaugural Women’s Club Sevens competition yesterday afternoon at Terenure College RFC. The six teams were split onto two pools as follows. Pool A Pool B Blackrock College Cooke Galwegians UL Bohs Railway Union Old Belvedere I’d made the two and a half hour trip down to cover […]
The much maligned Women’s All Ireland League finished it’s regular season on Saturday 23rd March with UL Bohemian, Old Belvedere, Railway Union and Blackrock going forward to the league playoffs to see who will be crowned Champions of Ireland for 2019. The semi finals will take place on Saturday 13th April as follows Old Belvedere […]
Cooke Women recorded an important 22 – 17 win against Galwegians Women on Saturday evening at Shaws Bridge in the Women’s All Ireland League. The result leaves the Belfast side four points ahead of their Connacht rivals though Galwegians have a game in hand. The visitors started strongly with Denise Redmond leading the way and it […]
It was a perfect day for rugby at Anglesea Road today as table-toppers Old Belvedere faced off against fourth-placed Galwegians. It was Old Belvedere who started the brighter and, after an opening 10 minutes where they were largely on top, the Dublin side took the lead as Amber Redmond went over on the left, the try […]
[pullquote]Vicky Irwin reports from Shawsbridge[/pullquote] Cooke Women strengthened their grip on third place in the Women’s AIL with a convincing 40 – 24 win against Galwegians Women on Sunday afternoon at Shawsbridge. Cooke started off well, with strong defence and a threatening attack and they got points on the board early in the match with […]
It was a big week in the Women’s All Ireland League with a couple of sensational results. Pride of place goes to Railway Union who inflicted the first defeat this season on UL Bohemians at the Limerick sides Annacotty fortress. Ulster’s Nikki Caughey opened the scoring for Railway in a tight match and Canadian international Emma Taylor […]
Week 2 of the Women’s All Ireland League saw home wins for Blackrock and Galwegians with UL Bohemians and Old Belvedere picking up vital away wins. Once again our featured match, Galwegians v Cooke was the closest encounter of the weekend with the home side winning by a solitary point in a fourteen try thriller […]
Cooke Women 7 (0)TRY: Lesley Megarity. CON: Grace Davitt.Galwegians Women 10 (10)TRY: Emma Clery. CON: Nicole Fowley. PEN: Nicole Fowley. Galwegians claimed the All Ireland Cup with a 10 – 7 win against Cooke at Anglesea Road on Saturday afternoon. The Connacht outfit’s scores came from a try by Emma Clery, converted by Nicole Fowley, and an […]
It’s Ulster v Connacht take two of the weekend as Cooke take on Glawegians in the All Ireland Cup Final on Saturday afternoon at Old Belvedere RFC, Anglesea Road, Dublin. Kick off 2:30 pm. Both teams showed impressive form in the semi-finals with Galwegians beating Blackrock 7 – 0 at home only to be upstaged […]
Having missed a few games due to clashes with the World Cup, I looked forward to catching up with the Women’s AIL as Cooke entertained Galwegians at Shaws Bridge on Sunday afternoon. It was another beautiful autumnal afternoon but unfortunately the game didn’t quite live up to the setting in a fairly scrappy first half punctuated […]
AIL1 side Galwegians moved into the semi finals of the All Ireland Cup with a convincing 10 – 31 win against AIL2N side Belfast Harlequins. Though the visitors managed to score five tries to the hosts one a spirited Quins side made their opponents fight all the way for their victory. Galwegians started strongly and […]
A last minute try by Chris Cochrane saw Dungannon home in this AIL 1B fixture against Galwegians at a damp Stevenson Park on Saturday afternoon with the home side winning by 21 – 15. This was a hard won game for the home side with the conditions making it difficult for both sides to play […]