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CIARA Griffin has been announced as the Women’s XVs Player of the Year at the Zurich Irish Rugby Players Awards. The Irish Women’s Rugby team’s captain, who hails from Ballymac, was named as the winner at the awards which took place on Wednesday night at the Clayton Hotel on the Burlington Road. […]

ULTAN Dillane played a big part as Connacht beat Leinster to claim their first Rabodirect Pro 12 crown. The Tralee man’s performance came in for some praise on Twitter. Now he has the tour of South Africa with Ireland to look forward to, it should be a great summer for […]

ULTAN Dillane will have to wait a little longer for his first start in a Six Nations game as he has been named on the bench for the clash with Italy on Saturday. The 22 year old former Tralee RFC player impressed with his 15 minutes game time against the English two weeks […]

YES, the Irish rugby team didn’t exactly set the world alight yesterday, but this year is clearly a transition period thanks to retirements and injuries, so we can write it off now and look to 2017. The future looks pretty bright in one sense as Ultan Dillane from Tralee really made an […]

TRALEE man Ultan Dillane has been named in the Ireland squad for Round 3 of the 2016 RBS 6 Nations Championship against England in Twickenham. The former Tralee RFC player was released from the squad to allow him to play for Connaught, just days prior to the French game, but now he’s […]

TWO Tralee RFC players are heading to Wales over the weekend as part of the Irish squad for a  friendly match in anticipation of this year’s Six Nations Championship. The Ireland Women’s management team have named Tralee RFC players, Ciara Griffin and Zoe Grattage in the 26-woman squad to play against […]

Our rugby writer, Mike O’Halloran on a fantastic win for Ireland yesterday… Johnny Sexton came back from a twelve week lay off to put in a man of the match performance when Ireland overcame a French team of “big human beings” as Joe Schmidt called them. It looked like France […]

TRALEE man Dinny Culloty got a nice early Christmas present on Wednesday last when he received tickets for the Ireland v England rugby clash next year from none other than Munster and Irish legend, Ronan O’Gara. It was all part of a ‘ThreeIreland’ campaign to deliver seasonal spontaneity to unsuspecting […]

The weather is supposed to brighten up, so there’s no excuse for vegging in front of the telly at the weekend. There’s loads to get up to… Friday 1. Celebrate Christie There’s a fantastic festival going on today and tomorrow at the Fels Point Hotel celebrating one of our town’s […]