Clontarf secured 1st place and a home AIL Semi-final with a hard earned victory over close rivals Old Belvedere in Anglesea Rd on Friday night. Clontarf started brightly but were undone on a number of occasions by a determined home defence which forced errors and turnovers. Despite dominating possession Clontarf found themselves behind by 10…

Clontarf secured 1st place and a home AIL Semi-final with a hard earned victory over close rivals Old Belvedere in Anglesea Rd on Friday night. Clontarf started brightly but were undone on a number of occasions by a determined home defence which forced errors and turnovers. Despite dominating possession Clontarf found themselves behind by 10…

Clontarf overcame a serious challenge from a muscular Con side on Saturday in Temple Hill and managed to hold the hosts try less for the full 80 while scoring two crackers of their own. While two tries to nil tells part of the story it was the resilience in the scrum particularly in the last…

Oh dear, oh dear, what an evening of comedy and tragedy in Castle Avenue on Friday as a highly motivated, frothing, but somewhat limited Terenure side hurled themselves, as expected, on the Clontarf 15. This was not a surprise, however, any expectation that the home side would be armoured for the assault was disabused as…

Clontarf travelled west into the teeth of a storm having done quite a bit of soul searching after two sub-par performances and two losses so far in January. Required, was a return to the core values of commitment and application and as it turned out, the weather on the day left little room for anything…

Clontarf supporters will be excused for chewing the insides of their cheeks bloody in frustration as their side lost a game due to a recklessly slow start on the 4G in Castle Avenue. In a first half strewn with home attacking errors, Lansdowne tacked on a solid 13 nil advantage which was pulled back to…

Well there’s nothing to raise the spirits after a rugby free Christmas than the prospect of a sodden gloomy trek down to Limerick for the commencement of the second half of the UBL. For the life of me I cannot understand why the IRFU flipped the fixtures rather than simply reverse them. The latter would…