This week sees a very welcome return of ladies rugby to the club. Training will commence this Wednesday September 8th at 6pm at the Rugby Club in Strandhill. All ladies are welcome whether you have played before or not. Please contact coach Gavin Foley for more details on 087 2406848.
The membership and registration forms for the 2010/2011 season are now available to download and complete:
- IRFU Player Registration Form (*double page form, required to be completed by all players)
Please note that Juvenile registration takes place tomorrow (details) – it would be a great help if members could have their forms completed in advance of this. Further forms for 400 Club etc can be found on our Members resource page (here).
SLIGO RFC – JUVENILE SECTION. We are looking for coaches and assistants for our Under age teams for the new season 2010/11 starting on the 4th September 2010 with registration in Sligo RFC (Hamilton Park, Strandhill, Sligo) from 10am to 11:30am for age groups Under 7 to Under 12’s. If you have a son/daughter (age 6 years or over) who is interested in joining us this season and you are keen as a parent to get involved – please contact the Co-ordinator – Justin Harte at 086-8162265. Sligo RFC adheres to the IRFU Child Welfare Policy. All Coaches will be Garda vetted this season in keeping with good practice. The training grounds for the Juvenile section will be Sligo IT again this year, however, for the month of September training will take place at Sligo RFC, Hamilton Park, Strandhill due to maintenance work being carried out on the Sligo IT pitches.
Due to time constraints, the Sligo Rugby Football Club fundraising draw, due to take place on the 21st of August has been posponed until the 26th of September.
The draw, in which Prizes of €1,000, €500 and €250 are up for grabs, will take place in Mc Hughs Bar Grattan Street Sligo on the evening of the 26th. Some tickets are still available for purchase. For details contact Ross Mannion at the Record Room, Grattan Street, Sligo.
Sligo RFC would like to invite all members, supporters, and friends to Hamilton Park, next tuesday evening (August 24th) to witness a unique event, when the senior team play host to Dublin University (Trinity College), to mark the centenary of the first fixture between the two clubs, played in 1910.The teams will battle it out on the pitch to earn the right to lift the George Hamlet Trophy, named after Sligo RFC’s popular elder statesman, former Club president, and dedicated servant of the club for over 50 years, who will be in attendance at the match and post match reception in the clubhouse.
The Match kicks off at 6pm.
Sligo RFC would like to wish Kevin Walsh and the SLIGO County Senior team the best of luck in their Connacht Final against Roscommon at Mc Hale park Castlebar next Sunday.
First team star, Jordan Farington, is running a Summer 7′s Train & Play session at the club for 14 to 17 year olds on Friday evenings at 5.30pm.
Quality Coaching in a controlled and fun environment focusing on the core skills in 7′s rugby that cross over to the 15 aside game. 45 minutes of training followed by 45 minutes playing. Players don’t need to be part of a team – just turn up and join in!
Please note that there’s a €5 per session cost
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!
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!
