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Rugby (Mens)
About
Training has started again for the U21 and Junior 1XV and 2XV Teams. It takes place every Tuesday and Thursdays, in Dangan (changing room 6) on the pitch for 7pm. Team gym sessions with the under 21s take place Mondays and Wednesday at 7:30am in the Kingfishers Elite Room. New players are always welcome. Rugby is one of Irelands most successful sports and Nuigalway has begun an elite rugby development programme. The current under 21s setup is very new, but progressing rapidly under the guidance of the professional players Johnny O Connor, Frank Murphy, Bernie Upton and Troy Nathan. Martin Murphy and Ian McDonald are also coaching the under 21s. Combined, this coaching staff brings modern, intensive training methods and invaluable advice to all players. Elite team gym sessions, sports psychologists and nutritionists are also part of this new set up and it provides players of all categories with a chance to develop their skills and progress to a new level. Veteran Dingle Daly and Ian Mac are looking after the Juniors for what promises to be an exciting year in the Clubs history!
History
Ollscoil na hEireann Gaillimh RFC (UCG) has a long and proud history of Rugby in Galway. Since co-founding the IRFU in 1874 the club has won more Connacht Cups than any other club in the province. Over its many successful years at senior rugby the club has contributed numerous players to international university sides, and at international level, 10 college players have been selected to play for their country, 4 while still members of this club, perhaps the most successful among them Ciaran Fitzgerald (Irish and Lions captain). In the 93/94 season, the club made history in becoming the first club to win the Connacht U20 Cup three times in a row. In doing this it also became the club with the highest number of U20 Cup wins. Together with the same record at senior level this now means that UCG has succeeded in winning more Connacht cups than any other club at all levels.
Achievements
Connacht Senior Cup Titles 34 Connacht U20 Cup Titles 9 Irish Senior International Players 10 Irish Universities Players c.100
Intervarsities
The Conroy cup is on in UCC this year, and it takes place from Friday the 20th until Sunday the 22nd of October. It is restricted to the U20 side and tradition holds that only six Universities may enter the competition. Queens (Belfast), Trinity, UCC, UCD, UCG (NUIG) and UL. With all other sides in the competition boasting an AIL side, Galway are usually at a disadvantage in this competition.
Ballinasloe 17 ... NUIG 0...
Sunday, 16th October 2011.
NUIG have yet to convert hard graft to winning points as they succumbed to their third defeat this season. However, the latest outing provided plenty of high points produced from some outstanding phases of play. Early pressure from a big Ballinasloe pack wasn’t converted to points as the College’s 1st XV’s defense stood firm, a testament to the hard work put in on the training pitch by coaches Johnny O’Connor and Adrian Flavin.
Missing several frontliners in the pack, the College scrum creaked under pressure but the lively back line kept the students in the game. Big carries from the outstanding Fergus Moyles, rampaging Tiago Trindade and aggressive Richie Bernie complemented the slick work of the backline with linebreaks from Matthew Kavanagh and Flavian Picazo, as well as former Ballinasloe man Rob Ahern who lined out at fullback.
Ballinasloe scored their first try 15minutes in when an overlap left space out wide but the home side’s Rob O’Beirn was unable to convert the try. Indeed Ballinasloe’s fabled kicker had a shocker with the boot, missing 4 penalties in the 1st half alone. This left the half time score at 5-0 with College unlucky not to get on the scoreboard.
NUIG were dealt a double blow when 5 minutes into the second half star prop Andrew Kelly had to retire with a shoulder injury, with captain Luke Murphy forced off with an ankle injury only minutes later. Concluding a bizarre series of events, Ben Purceval was sin-binned for an alleged kick and with both props off the field and the replacements used the referee inexplicably refused to allow the visitors to replace their second prop. This left NUIG with 13 players on the pitch for 10 minutes and while Purceval returned having served his ‘sentence’ with the scrums uncontested, College were not permitted to return to 15 players. Ballinasloe made the extra men count and it wasn’t long before they scored their second and third tries though NUIG’s impressive defense denied them a 4 try bonus point.
NUIG now face Loughrea in the 5th Round of the Connacht Junior League on the 23rd October.
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| Position | Name |
| Treasurer | Luke Murphy |
| Secretary | Hannah Smith |
| Assistant PRO | Micheal Roche |
| Treasurer 2 | Andrew Kelly |
| @ | rugby@clubs.nuigalway.ie |
| w | http://nuigrugby.com/ |
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Rugby (Mens), Sports Unit, National University of Ireland, Galway |
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
This page was last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012.