Despite losing further players through injury during the week, Dolphin started well while playing against a strong breeze. In the 4th minute, 2nd row Chris Rowe come through a ruck with nobody in front of him, he made plenty of ground (at least 100m in his opinon) offloaded to Kevin Lynch who found Andy O’Driscoll on [...]
It was announced on Canal + this evening during the Perpignan v Biarritz game this evening. All his Dolphin friends wish him every success on his move to the south of France, and would be delighted to seem him back in the red of Munster and blue white and yellow of Dolphin sometime in the future. [...]
It was a very good weekend for most of the clubs teams, the highlights being the AIL victory over the League Leaders St Mary’s College, U/21′s still on top of the South Western Conference and J2′s qualifying for the league final. AIL Dolphin 12- St Mary’s College 8 Having already beaten Clontarf & Young Munsters [...]
AIL- Clontarf 32 Dolphin 23 Dolphin had a dream start and then a reality check, all within the first seven minutes. In virtually the first minute, Ryan Murphy scored an unconverted try, but Clontarf scored two tries within the next five minutes, Clontarf had a 3rd try before half time, Barry Keeshan kept Dolphin in [...]
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Niall Scannell has been selected to play in the opening U20 International v Wales on Friday night (live on RTE 2 7.05 ko). He is one of just two Munstermen in the side, a third, James Rael is on the bench, as replacement hooker. Niall missed the U20 interpro series as he recovered from shoulder [...]
Garryowen had a strong performance at home in the AIL in the first half and went into the break 19-3 ahead, Dolphin’s points coming from a Barry Keeshan penalty. Dolphin kept the home side scoreless in the 2nd half and scored 10 points, a try from John Quill and a penalty and conversion from Keeshan. [...]
Congratulations to James Coughlan who has been added to the Irish Squad for the 6 Nations in recognition of his progress and consistancy over the past two seasons and hopefully it will result in international recognition. He is pictured above at todays session training session in UL.
The main game this weekend was the U/21 League fixture v Old Crescent. Dolphin lost their opening league fixture v Old Crescent and had been unbeaten since. Old Crescent had also lost one game but were the league leaders, a single point ahead of Dolphin. Dolphin led by 17-5 at half time, having played with [...]
Munster have made two changes to their Heineken Cup panel with Peter Stringer on Loan and John Hayes retired, Felix Jones and Christy Condon have been added.