Category: Belfast Harlequins RFC
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Premier Women: Belfast Harlequins 0 Malone 63
On Sunday afternoon Malone made the short journey to Deramore Park to play Belfast Harlequins in a Women’s Premiership fixture. Unbeaten Malone lay 1st in the table, Quins 6th. In the early clashes Malone dominated possession but it took until the 11th minute to register their first try, when Jill Stephens sniped over far out, on…
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AIL2B: Belfast Harlequins 30 Skerries 30
On Saturday afternoon it was a short walk from the hockey pitch to the rugby pitch for the AIL2B league game between Belfast Harlequins and Skerries from north Co Dublin. A well struck long range penalty goal by Ronan Mulcahy gave Skerries a 3-0 lead after 8 minutes. Quins responded when Mark Glover cut back…
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AIL 2B: Belfast Harlequins 30 Malahide 27
Belfast Harlequins welcomed Malahide to Deramore Park on Saturday afternoon for their opening match in this season’s AIL 2B league campaign. This opening match saw both teams hyped up from the start. It didn’t take long for the home team to earn a penalty in front of Malahide’s post which was dispatched by No 10,…
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Premier Women: Belfast Harlequins 5 Ballynahinch 39
I nipped over from The Dub to Deramore Park on Sunday for my seventh game of the weekend which featured Belfast Harlequins against Ballynahinch in a Ulster women’s Premiership match. I must say this was one of my favourites of the weekend thanks largely to Hinch’s Paige Smyth who exploded into action with a quick…
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Provincial Premier: City of Armagh III 5 Belfast Harlequins II 19
My second game at City of Armagh rugby Club on Saturday with the Provincial Premier D1 match between Armagh 3rd XV and Belfast Harlequins 2nd XV. I arrived over for the second half with the score at 5 – 7 in Quins favour. Armagh’s points came form a William Coleman try, Quins responding through a…
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Ulster Premiership: Belfast Harlequins 39 Bangor 19
I got to Deramore Park, as the whistle sounded for the start of the 2nd half. Belfast Harlequins led 27-7 at the break. Andrew Shaw contributed a try for Bangor, converted by Gareth Millar. Unfortunately, we don’t have the 1st half scorers for Quins. Quins increased their 1st half lead, when Cole Blyde scored under the posts for…
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Women’s Premiership: Belfast Harlequins 0 Queen’s University 60
We caught up with Belfast Harlequins and Queen’s University Women’s sides in a Premiership match at Deramore Park early on Sunday afternoon. We used the match as a training match for one of our trainee photographers and the teams produced plenty of action for our photographer to work with. Queen’s were quick out of the…
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Provincial Premier 1: Carrickfergus II 7 Belfast Harlequins II 33
I caught up with the Provincial Premier 1 match between Carrickfergus and Belfast Harlequins 2nd XV’s in an early kick off at the Tom Simms Memorial Park on Saturday afternoon. It was a real war of attrition in the first 15 minutes as Quins kept Carrick pinned in their own half. The home defence was…
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Junior Friendly: Belfast Harlequins 33 Dromore 19
On a sunny, warm Saturday afternoon, Belfast Harlequins hosted Dromore, in a preseason friendly, played over 3 periods, at Deramore Park. Both teams were willing to throw the ball around, from kick off. Luke McGarrity found himself, in space, out on the right, before dotting down, on 9 minutes. Johnny McCracken’s conversion made it 7-0…