The long awaited Connacht Under 16 League Final between Sligo RFC and Galwegians has been fixed for this Sunday in Castlebar for 12pm KO. Your support would be greatly appreciated!
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
IRFU MEDIA RELEASE – Issued on behalf of the Irish Rugby Football Union.
As Irish rugby grows ever more in popularity, Bud Light Tag, the IRFU’s official Tag Rugby programme is enjoying similar heights in popularity as teams get set for the season ahead with new venues opening up all over Ireland. One of the these Bud Light Tag venues is SLIGO RFC where team registrations have now gone live online.
This venue can boast top class pitch and changing facilities, top referees and the best venue managers around. At only €495 per team, registration works out at less than a fiver per player during the nine-week season.
Taking place every Thursday from May 13th all mixed social grades are be catered for from A level to Beginners over 11 weeks of the summer until Finals Night on Friday July 23rd. The Mixed Social leagues will fill up very quickly given the activity going on right now. Throughout the season the club will run special social events and promotion nights, details of which will be announced late April/early May. Continue reading ‘BUD LIGHT TAG ALL SET FOR 2010 IN SLIGO’
Ballinrobe 12 :: Sligo RFC 45
On the 7th of March, on a day with conditions perfect for rugby, Sligo U-16s took on Ballinrobe U-17s at Ballinrobe Racecourse in the Under 17 Plate.
Sligo started well and scored with Diarmuid O Dowd-Hill on the sixth minute after great pressure from Sligo. Enda Gavin stepped up to take the kick 5 meters out from the touchline, but missed the difficult conversion. Ballinrobe quickly responded with a try against the run of play, conversion was missed by the Ballinrobe 10. After sustained pressure from the Sligo team, a gap was made and Eddie Connell capitalised and touched it down underneath the posts. the conversion was easily taken by Enda Gavin which put sligo up by 7 points with a score of 12-5 to Sligo. Continue reading ‘Under 16s through to Under 17 Plate Semi’s’
Sligo RFC U13 39 :: an Gaeltacht 22
Sligo Under 13’s made it two out of two in the Connacht Cup with another win in their clash with An Gaeltacht in Strandhill on Sunday. The conditions were perfect and in front of a big home crowd, Sligo put on their best display of rugby this season.
An Gaeltacht came out firing on all cylinders and forced Sligo back into their own half for the first ten minutes, creating a penalty opportunity which they capitalised on opening the game, making it 3-0. Continue reading ‘Under 13s Rumble On’
Monivea RFC 32 :: Sligo RFC 21
Sligo lost out to a strong Monivea outfit in their final Junior league encounter of the 2009/2010 season at the Castle grounds in Monivea on Sunday. The Galway side outscored their northwestern visitors by four tries to two in a fast paced encounter played in ideal conditions.
Sligo won the toss and elected to play with the aid of the breeze in the first half. Early pressure by the forwards looked to have reaped reward when a maul was driven over the Monivea line but the referee was unsighted and the try was not awarded. Sligo did manage to get off the mark with a Paddy Pearson penalty, kicked from the 22 metre line. Continue reading ‘League Campaign draws to a close’
Sligo u15’s continued the clubs excellent start to the youth cup competitions will a win over Buccaneers in Dubarry Park Athlone last Saturday. This was Sligo third success over Buccaneers in 2 weeks with the under 14’s and u16’s both winning their cups games against the Athlone based side the previous weekend.
Building on hard games against Ballina, Longford and Mullingar over the past month Sligo played a very controlled game of rugby and looked like winners from the kick off. Continue reading ‘U15’s kick off cup campaign will a win in Athlone’
Our website was hacked a couple of hours ago and unfortunately it meant that we had to wipe our server and start from scratch.
We had a good deal of our core data backed up but we have lost a number of uploaded files. It will take us a while to get things back to normal – but we will get it back to normal.
So – if while reading some of our posts you notice that images or linked files are missing please bare with us.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused by this disruption.
For those of you who are curious about such things here’s an explanation of what happened- basically our copy of WordPress (a blogging platform that we use to power this site) was let get out of date – the version we were running we discovered had a couple of security weaknesses in it which meant it was open to abuse. The software was attacked using an injection attack which added crap to our database and installed and modified some scripts which then turned our website in to a spam site. Everything looked normal and none of our own core data was affected but in order to neuter the malignant code we had to basically wipe everything out (it kept regenerating itself which meant we weren’t able to find all instances of the attack). The moral of the story? Keep your software up to date, keep regular backups, and make sure to install all those security updates!
Check out our facebook page (and become a fan!) to see photos from the night – well done Paddy!
Sligo RFC U16s 22 :: Buccaneers U16s 0
Sligo’s U16s powered their way into the final of the Connacht U16 league with a superb team performance against a strong Buccaneers outfit at Strandhill on Sunday.
Sligo RFC’s Under 16 Squad (photo supplied by ShootingStars.ie)
The home team scored four tries without reply on their way to a convincing victory.
Buccaneers kicked off and immediately put the home outfit under pressure, but some fine driving play by Sligo forwards Diarmuid O Dowd Hill and Jamie Mc Govern gave outhalf Enda Gavin the space to clear his lines and avert the danger. Continue reading ‘Sixteens Power to Final’
The Sligo RFC senior squad are holding a fundraising race night in Mc Hughs bar in Sligo on the 19th March. The event kicks off at 8pm and horses are available for sale in advance of what promises to be a great nights entertainment. For more details contact event organiser Ross Mannion at the record room in Grattan street.
A poster for the event can be found here – please consider putting this up at your place of work etc.
Sligo’s second team picked up another valuable win to aid in their quest for league title honours when they defeated Ballina by three points in a tough away encounter at Heffernan park on Sunday. Tries from Steve Kilgallon and Kieran Stafford combined with two Donal Finneran penalties and a conversion were enough to ensure that the visitors claimed the points. Sligo have now won all but one of their league matches this season and they will be looking to avenge that defeat to Creggs when the Roscommon outfit come to Sligo for what is likely to be a winner takes all scenario in the return fixture in the coming month.
Sligo RFC 24 :: Westport RFC 0
Sligo under 13s opened their Connacht Cup campaign with an impressive 24-0 win against Westport on Saturday. The Sligo team took an early lead with a bustling run up the middle from débutante Haddie Moussa to score under the post. Darragh Cummins converted to make a seven point lead. Continue reading ‘Under 13s progress in Cup’
