Favourites Lansdowne duly despatched a game, if ultimately out-gunned UCD side on the Aviva back pitch last Saturday as the Headquarters team took the honours with a bonus-point victory. Lansdowne thus retained the Billy Sutherland Cup, a trophy presented by the late…
It was a beautifully crisp Saturday morning as the Lansdowne team bus pulled into Dooradoyle. The freshly cut pitch looked resplendent and the travelling squad set about their pre-match warm up routines. Still smarting from a last minute defeat to…
What a cracker of a match! Played in perfect conditions on the Aviva Stadium back pitch, both sides served up a display of rugby fit to grace any field in what was a tremendous show-piece for the Energia-sponsored AIL, culminating…
Last Friday evening, Lansdowne, armed up with their Covid Certs and the Lansdowne faithful, duly took on the seasonal Friday-night trek across the Liffey to take on our old Northside rivals, Clontarf FC, in Division 1A of the Energia Ireland-sponsored…
As an advertisement for the Energia-sponsored AIL, they don’t get much better than this. Two sides totally dedicated to their respective causes, both unbeaten and determined to keep things that way. Lansdowne’s preparations were disrupted before the start as Michael…
Lansdowne recorded their third win in a row in the latest round of the Energia- sponsored All Ireland League with a comfortable win against a young UCC side at the picturesque Mardyke grounds in Cork on Saturday. Winger Michael Silvester…
Early days yet, but Lansdowne continued their impressive opening form in the second round of the Energia- sponsored All Ireland League with a hard-fought win against a dogged Terenure side on Saturday in Lakelands Park. The pre-match selection was disrupted by the…
Following a directive from the IRFU on the 12th of March 2020, all rugby activity on the island of Ireland was suspended until the 29th of March. Little did we realise at the time that this was only the tip…
For many people attending this Leinster rugby season-opener, it was not so much the fact that it pitted two old foes against each other, it was the simple pleasure in being able to watch a game of rugby. As is…
God be with the days when a Leinster Senior Cup second round fixture would have the talk of the club for weeks beforehand. A sizeable crowd would have turned up to support their respective sides as they battled for a…
A pig of a day, with storm Jorge arriving just in time to ensure this Energia AIL Division I match became an arm-wrestle, with possession of the ball sometimes proving as much of a liability as an asset. The notorious…
The all-important losing bonus point meant that Lansdowne remained in 4th place in the All Ireland League and one point ahead of Young Munster, the victors on the day in what was a hard-fought win. Incredibly, this was the fifth…
