After six seasons in Division 1B, during which they were at one time staring down the barrel of a drop into Division 2A of the AIL, the famous Shannon Club deservedly took their place back at the top table this…
Arriving in Cork on the back of a nine-match winning streak, Lansdowne were the bookies favourites to complete the season double over the Leeside students, who were languishing second from bottom of the league. Instead, it was the College side…
What a cracker of a match! The elements, which had condemned the first meeting between these two sides in mid-December to a water-boarding forward slog, relented this time and conditions were nigh perfect for winter rugby. The outcome was a…
A match similar in many ways to the AIL game between the two sides last October – cold and wet, with a wind sweeping the rain in from the city end of the Dooradoyle ground. A similar outcome, too, with…
Lansdowne travelled to College Park to face a Trinity side coming off the back of an impressive win away to Clontarf. Lansdowne were looking to close out 2018 with their 7th straight AIL victory. The weather at College was typically wet, windy and dreary…
There was a time when a visit to Limerick to take on the Shannon Club in the AIL would have been looked forward to with some trepidation. Nine-times All-Ireland title winners, Shannon still hold the record for the greatest…
Having stormed the Cookie’s Limerick Citadel for the first time in seven attempts last season by a 27-24 score line, it was going to take another massive effort to repeat the exercise this time around. And another massive effort it…
Cork Con must be forgiven if they felt a strong sense of deja vu last Saturday in Lansdowne Road as they were taken apart by yet another young out-half whose stunning debut for his club set him apart as a…
Round 3 of the All Ireland League sees Lansdowne on the road again. This time we visit Belfield to take on UCD who are fresh off a win against AIL newcomers UCC in game 1 and a draw against Dublin…
Not the ideal start to Lansdowne’s 2018-19 AIL campaign last Friday night as the Headquarters club set out on the defence of the All Ireland League title they won in such great style last season. Played under lights on a…
