Post Tagged with: "Munster Rugby"

Jay Galvin takes us through the year in rugby from Ultan Dillane and Anthony Foley to Tralee RFC’s fortunes…  This past year has brought some outstanding highlights in the local, provincial and national rugby scene. To say that a year is a long time in the rugby sporting world is […]

Avid Munster fan, Mike O’Halloran, describes his feelings after an emotional day in Thomond Park where Munster honoured Anthony Foley’s memory… IS it wrong to describe the atmosphere in Thomond Park yesterday as beautiful? On the way to the game I had expected the atmosphere to be sombre, and I suppose to […]

A BOOK of Condolence for the late Anthony Foley will be opened by Kerry County Council from 12 noon today, Monday. All seven local authorities in Munster have agreed to do so from noon today. The Munster rugby coach died on Saturday night at the team hotel in Paris on […]

  Our rugby writer, Mike O’Halloran, was at Thomond Park today where he saw Munster run riot over Sale Sharks… Munster 65 Sale Sharks 10 THERE was a try fest in Thomond this afternoon with Munster scoring eight second half tries. Simon Zebo twisted his way to the line to touch […]

  Our rugby writer, Mike O’Halloran, reports from London on Munster’s defeat to Saracens on Saturday Saracens 33 Munster 10 In my piece last week before the Munster team was selected, I said that Conor Murray would be a loss if he was unable to play and so it proved. […]

Our rugby writer, Mike O’Halloran, says that despite Munster’s recent woes, all is not lost for Saturday’s Champions Cup game at Saracens… NEXT Saturday at 1pm, Munster Rugby will line out in the “plastic pitch” that is the home of Saracens RFC in London. By 3pm the Munster train to the […]

Our rugby columnist, Mike O’Halloran, believes the dream of seeing JJ Hanrahan in the No.10 of Munster is still possible…just not for a while… I have been supporting Munster and attending matches in Thomond Park since 1973 and in all those years, I have never experienced the disappointment that Munster fans […]

  DISAPPOINTING news has come through for Munster Rugby fans in the county, with the announcement that Currow native JJ Hanrahan will leave the province at the end of the current season to join Aviva Premiership side Northampton Saints. Despite being offered a three year deal with Munster, the Kerry man confirmed his […]

Our rugby writer, Mike O’Halloran, on a disappointing day for Munster yesterday… I ASKED in my preview of this game Can Munster win and I answered ‘of course they can’, but I was wrong. Try as they might, Munster could not overcome ASM Clermont Auvergne, even after getting a dream start. […]

Our rugby analyst, Mike O’Halloran, on the speculation that Kerryman, JJ Hanrahan, could be leaving Munster… IT is all over print, broadcast and digital media that Currow man and Munster Rugby star J J Hanrahan has been offered a contract with Nothampton Saints – figures of €190,000 contract are being […]

Our rugby analyst, Mike O’Halloran, believes Munster can overcome Clermont Auvergne in France next weekend… Munster were bullied into submission by Clermont Auvergne last Saturday evening in Thomond Park, when they surrendered their impressive record of beating French opposition 23 times in Limerick. Munster travel to France on Sunday for […]

Our rugby analyst, Mike O’Halloran, on Munster’s victory on Friday night… AFTER a very tense first half, full tactical box kicking and handling errors, Munster finally overcame the challenge presented by the star studded Saracens. This game was won by the forwards, especially the back row of O’Donnell, CJ Stander […]

ON Saturday Tralee Rugby Club hosted both an Interprovincial Senior Ladies Final between Munster v Connacht and a ‘Family Fun Day’. The Inter-pro final featured seven players who play for Tralee Rugby Club across both sides, with Connacht in fact having four players drawn from the Tralee club. There was […]

IF the rugby doesn’t work out for Munster’s Ronan O’Mahony and Felix Jones they can always look at a career in soccer judging by the skills they showed at Lifestyle Sports in Tralee on Thursday afternoon. The rugby lads made a stop-off at the Manor West store as part of ‘The Munster […]