Youths Rugby

MrJones2013

Quin_Dub wrote: »

Garryowen beat Waterpark 20-15 , with Waterpark getting a try in the final whistle.. Garryowen OH controlled the game and the conditions keeping Waterpark pinned back all game, forcing them to attack from deep all game.

Ennis won the 2nd semi in a nail-biter.. 20-17 , Tralee spent the final 5-6 minutes camped on the Ennis line pushing for a try, but Ennis held on.

Final next Sunday in Thomond at 3:45pm

I've watched Garryowen under 18's a few times this season and their outhalf has been the standout player every time. He controls the game exceptionally well and is a top drawer player, definitely one for the future.

espn091

MrJones2013 wrote: »

I've watched Garryowen under 18's a few times this season and their outhalf has been the standout player every time. He controls the game exceptionally well and is a top drawer player, definitely one for the future.

Harry Byrne, played for Munster u18 this season.

Quin_Dub

MrJones2013 wrote: »

I've watched Garryowen under 18's a few times this season and their outhalf has been the standout player every time. He controls the game exceptionally well and is a top drawer player, definitely one for the future.

espn091 wrote: »

Harry Byrne, played for Munster u18 this season.

Yes , and he completely outshone his opposite number Ben Daly, who was his understudy this season for Munster. Really controlled the game..

Quin_Dub

Munster Club Finals pushed back a week , will now take place on April 2nd.

Munster have closed the main pitch in Thomond park to protect it for the Toulouse game so U16/U18 finals will be played the day after now.

The Lost Sheep

Quin_Dub wrote:

Munster Club Finals pushed back a week, will now take place on April 2nd.
Munster have closed the main pitch in Thomond park to protect it for the Toulouse game so U16/U18 finals will be played the day after now.

at least they're still in Thomond and on main pitch. Great that club youths games are back in Thomond after few years not in the ground.

Great thing about donnybrook was Leinster always played as many games as possible on the pitches even when it wrecked the 2 pitches there.

Such a shame all Ireland's are not what they were at youths level any more.
Would love if it got back to like it was back in hey day of ail and youths 16/18, 17/19 finals were played as part of triple header with ail1 final on main pitch in Lansdowne

espn091

Carlow u18 defeated Skerries u18 50-17 in u18 Premier final yesterday.
Gorey u18 defeated Tullow u18 15-11 in Div 1 final yesterday.

Gorey u17 drew with Wicklow u17 21-21 in u17 Premier final yesterday.
Wexford u17 defeated Tullow u17 38-25 in Div 1 final yesterday.

The Lost Sheep

http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/youth-finals-day-packed-with-high-scoring-encounters/

The Lost Sheep

http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/massive-weekend-of-youths-rugby-ahead/

Munster finals all now have been played. Back to regional cups now

Connacht at cup semi finals/finals in most competitions...

The Lost Sheep

Connacht cup finals starting next weekend. All cup finals due to be played in Sportsground.
Some regional finals in Munster this weekend. East Munster u18 final is in tipp town tomorrow with Clan hosting Waterpark.

The Lost Sheep

Some excellent quality games in Sportsground today
Ballina won under 14 cup final beating Galwegians 33-22, Galwegians won under 16 cup beating Corinthians 20-11 and Ballina won under 18s beating Corinthians 23-22
http://community.connachtrugby.ie/22678-2/

The Lost Sheep

Connacht under 13/15/17 finals are in sportsground sunday.lota of plate semis/finals also on.

Most south Munster cups have finished while there is huge number of semis and some finals on in North Munster. East/west Munster cups all finished.

Leinster cup finals in Donnybrook over the weekend. some others also being played round the province

The Lost Sheep

Leinster tweeted results of finals played over the weekend so far.
U17 Premier League Final replay Wicklow 28 Gorey 7
U15 School/Youth Premier Final: Clontarf 20 Cill Dara 7
U15 School/Youth Division 1 Final: North Meath 29 Seapoint 28
U14 School/Youth Division 1 Final: Seapoint 19 DLSP 10
U14 School/Youth Premier League Final: Clontarf 15 Old Belvedere 0
U13 School/Youth Section A: Clontarf A 19 Greystones A 12
U13 School/Youth Section B: Suttonians 15 barnhall 12
U13 School/Youth Section C: Cill Dara 31 DLSP 12
U13 School/Youth Section Ashbourne 22 Clontarf 17

In Connacht the u13/15/17 cup finals were in Sportsground today. Creggs beat Ballina 19-14 in 13s final, Galwegians won the u15s beating Monivea 15-12 and Buccaneers beat Ballina 27-12 in the U17 Final

The Lost Sheep

U13 McGowan Cup Final Athy 7 Naas 14
U13 Plate Arklow 5 Tullamore 26
U14 Cup Final Gorey 17 Tullamore 7
U14 Plate Final Boyne 25, Edenderry 26
U15 McAuley Cup Final Mullingar 27 Boyne 38
U15 Plate Final Longford 24 Dundalk 26
U16 Cup Final Portlaoise 13 Navan 20

Quin_Dub

Some North Munster Results

North Munster U14 Cup Final - Ennis 15-17 Shannon
North Munster U15 Cup Final - Ennis 55-12 Newcastle West
North Munster U16 Cup Final - Ennis 22-24 Nenagh
North Munster U18 Cup Final - Young Munster 21-36 Shannon-St Marys

dub9

Any Rugby clubs or summer camps open during this summer between July-August (IN Dublin) for a 16 year old lad? Please direct to some existing post or advise ? Cheers

The Lost Sheep

Quin_Dub wrote:

North Munster U14 Cup Final - Ennis 15-17 Shannon North Munster U15 Cup Final - Ennis 55-12 Newcastle West North Munster U16 Cup Final - Ennis 22-24 Nenagh North Munster U18 Cup Final - Young Munster 21-36 Shannon-St Marys

2 city cup finals without any sides from the city playing. Nenagh Ennis game was by all accounts a real classic. Nenagh came from 22-3 down to win 24-22. Not bad for a side that could have ended up playing in the bowl if you went by positions in phase 1 of the league.
Iia that 18s cup the open or closed cup as the 16s was the closed version?

dub9 wrote:

Any Rugby clubs or summer camps open during this summer between July-August (IN Dublin) for a 16 year old lad? Please direct to some existing post or advise? Cheers

some clubs could run their own skills sessions but unlikely to be any form of scheduled camp for that age unless you look at Leinster school of excellence which is in kings hospital school off junction 7 m50... That may have sold out though

Quin_Dub

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

2 city cup finals without any sides from the city playing. Nenagh Ennis game was by all accounts a real classic. Nenagh came from 22-3 down to win 24-22. Not bad for a side that could have ended up playing in the bowl if you went by positions in phase 1 of the league.
Iia that 18s cup the open or closed cup as the 16s was the closed version?

The 18's game was the closed cup.

Crescent won the U16s Open Cup , Not sure who won the 18's Open Cup.

Limerick city clubs are struggling with numbers due to the increased schools panel sizes this season.

Ennis very strong at Youths at present.

Narrowly lost the League and Cup Finals at U14's to Young Munster and Shannon respectively ,Won the League and Cup Double at U15's, Won the League and lost the Cup final at U16 and won the BOI Munster Cup at U18

The Lost Sheep

Quin_Dub wrote: »

The 18's game was the closed cup.

Crescent won the U16s Open Cup, Not sure who won the 18's Open Cup.

Limerick city clubs are struggling with numbers due to the increased schools panel sizes this season.

Ennis very strong at Youths at present.

Narrowly lost the League and Cup Finals at U14's to Young Munster and Shannon respectively ,Won the League and Cup Double at U15's, Won the League and lost the Cup final at U16 and won the BOI Munster Cup at U18

Hard to compete with schools but what would you like seen done? If Clements are now an A school as i heard that they are how many schools within Limerick city are left that have boys attending? Villiers, CBS Sexton St, Gaelcholaiste. Any more within city.

Ennis should be strong. The town is huge and they also attract large amount of kids in west clare who dont/wont play for the clubs like Kilrush etc. Ennis is the sort of town, like Navan, Tralee, Drogheda, Dundalk that the IRFU should be funneling huge funds creating satellite mini rugby clubs around to help develop more clubs in these areas and try develop them into youths clubs in time and ideally new adult clubs in 20 years or so.

The Lost Sheep

Ulster cup finals review..

http://www.ulsterrugby.com/news/16013.php#.WRcwb7uGPIU

The Lost Sheep

http://munsterrugby.ie/domestic_news/interpro-squads-get-into-full-flow/

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Leinster u18 clubs squad:

Forwards
Michael Power(Clontarf)
Michael McGiff(Clontarf)
Michael Fitzpatrick(Clontarf)
Fionn Gilbert(Clontarf)
Killian O'Brien(Greystones)
Harry Noonan(Greystones)
Patrick Kieran(Greystones)
Sam Porter(Wicklow)
Luke Thompson(Wicklow)
Mark Nicholson(Wicklow)
Brian Deeney(Wexford)
Barry Ryan(Wexford)
Marcus Hanan(North Kildare)
Conor Duff(North Kildare)
Tadhg Butler(Kilkenny)
Luke Carton(Mullingar)
David Murphy(Newpark)
Robert Murphy(Gorey)
Sean O'Rourke(Athy)
Jordan Kelly(Enniscorthy)
Charlie Ward(Tullow)

Backs
Ryan McHugh(Longford)
Niall Hilliard(Barnhall)
Fiachra Hourihane(Enniscorthy)
Paddy McKenzie(Wicklow)
Shane Murphy(Skerries)
Dairmuid Egan(Tullamore)
Adam Nealon(De La Salle)
Jack Usher(Suttonians)
Ben Jones(Barnhall)
Thomas Jones(North Kildare)
Matthew Jungmann(Newpark)
Joe Mulholland(Ardee)
Ciaran Murphy(Stillorgan)
Karl Martin(Boyne)
Thomas McBrien(Skerries)
Cathal Farrell(Tullamore)
Luis Faria(Newpark)
Sean Wafer(Gorey)
Josh O'Connor(Wexford)
Niall Derham(Mullingar)

The Lost Sheep

Munster youths lost to the exiles at he weekend 31-25. Very big tipp/Waterford representation in squad. And great seeing so many clubs involved in particular a few clubs that haven't had many players involved in squads before/in long time

The Lost Sheep

Connacht 18s beaten 17-5 by Munster schools

The Lost Sheep

Connacht 19s playing Munster in Athlone tomorrow. Interpros start next weekend.

gazump123

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Connacht 19s playing Munster in Athlone tomorrow. Interpros start next weekend.

I heard it's Ulster that Connacht are playing tomorrow.

The Lost Sheep

gazump123 wrote:

I heard it's Ulster that Connacht are playing tomorrow.

was told by a coach of one of teams it's Munster.

irishfan9

Shane Horgan Cup

Wednesday, 23rd August, at Cill Dara RFC (South-East – bye)

Metro 0 Midlands 29 (KO 6pm)
North-East 21 North Midlands 10 (KO 7.15pm)

Wednesday, 1st November, at Tullamore RFC (North Midlands – bye)

Midlands v North East (KO 11.30am)
Metro v South East (KO 1pm)

Wednesday, 3rd January, at Donnybrook (Midlands – bye)

Metro v Nth East (KO 11.30am)
South East v North Midlands (KO 1pm)

Wednesday, 15th February, at Ashbourne RFC (Metro – bye)

North Midlands v Midlands (KO 11.30am)
South East v North East (KO 1pm)

Wednesday, 4th April, at Enniscorthy RFC (North-East – bye)

South East v Midlands (KO 11.30am)
North Midlands v Metro (KO 1pm)

The Lost Sheep

The Lost Sheep wrote:

was told by a coach of one of teams it's Munster.

and it was Ulster.... Not a competitive game but originally listed on few places as Munster and I'd been told on phone it was Munster. More of an opposed training with backs running lines and forwards doing lineouts and scrums against each other. Then they played 20mins of scenarios and played few phases

irishfan9

irish exiles undefeated again u18 club sides.. defeated leinster 29-24 over the weekend.

irishfan9

Leinster u18 club side

15. Cathal Farrell (Tullamore) / Mike McGiff (Clontarf) ht
14. Josh O’Connor (Wexford) / Thomas Jones (North Kildare) 22 mins
13. Luis Faria (Wanderers)
12. Karl Martin (Boyne)
11. Sean Wafer (Gorey)
10. Paddy McKenzie (Wicklow)
9. Shane Murphy (Skerries) / Fiachra Hourlehan (Enniscorthy) 61 mins
1. Marcus Hannon (Clane) / Sean O’Rourke (Athy) 67 mins
2. Barry Ryan (Wexford) / Mark Nicholson (Wicklow) 61 mins
3. Charlie Ward (Tullow) / Jordan Kelly (Enniscorthy) 66 mins
4. Fion Gilbert (Clontarf)
5. Sam Porter (Wicklow) / Rob Murphy (Gorey) 53 mins
6. Brian Deeney (Wexford)
7. Luke Thompson (Wicklow) CAPTAIN
8. Tadgh Butler (Kilkenny)