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In the Zone | In the GAA | July 01, 2019This summer sees one of Ireland’s largest Sporting & Cultural festivals coming to Waterford, when the third GAA World Games sponsored by Renault arrives July / August! And as World Games kit suppliers we are full steam ahead getting ready, with the sunny south east set to see an array of brand new O’Neills jersey designs during the summer. So, here’s ten things you need to know about the GAA World Games.
When Are the Games On?
Between the 28th July and August 1st the tournament is hosted at Waterford Institute of Technology's Sports campus, with matches in the WIT Arena and the finals being played at Croke Park on August 2nd, 2019.
Va va Voom
Renault Ireland has been announced as the title sponsor of the 2019 GAA World Games, which will bring 1,300 players from 10 regions around the globe home to play this summer.
Where Will They All Stay Say Their Mammies
Where will they all stay?? Not to worry, they’re staying in student accommodation around WIT. There is a Twinning event for
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In the Rugby | June 21, 2019The Super Rugby Finals stage returns to Canberra this weekend as the Plus500 Brumbies take on the Sharks from South Africa at home at the GIO Stadium in a Quarter Final clash.
The match will kick off at 8:05pm.
If the Brumbies are successful in overcoming the Sharks and if the Jaguares defeat the Chiefs in Buenos Aires, the Brumbies will travel to Argentina for a semi final the following weekend. If the Chiefs are successful the New Zealanders will play the Brumbies at GIO Stadium.
Last weekend saw the Plus500 Brumbies end their regular Super Rugby season with their seventh straight victory at GIO Stadium against the Reds.
As their last game of the year before finals, the Brumbies also had the boost of sealing the bonus-point victory winning 40-27. It’s fair to say the Red made the Brumbies fight hard in the second half to take the win.
Coach Dan McKellar said afterwards, “I’m happy with the win. I’m happy we came through unscathed as well. We were a bit frantic with our last action
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In the Zone | In the Rugby | May 23, 2019This weekend sees the Rugby League Dacia Magic weekend take place at Anfield, the home of course of Liverpool FC. It’s a real festival of rugby for league fans in which an entire round of Super League matches is played over a weekend at a single stadium to promote rugby league. Since it was introduced used the Magic weekend has done what it says on the tin and been a magic weekend of thrills and spills for supporters and players.
With a reputation for entertainment averaging out at 50 points scored per game, the package of six top flight games in one venue is a real winner. And O’Neills are proud to be there as kit supplier to four of the twelve teams the Catalans Dragons fresh from their Camp Nou success, Warrington Wolves, Huddersfield Giants and St Helens.
This year the top four teams from the 2018 season headline each day with Wigan taking on Warrington on Saturday night and St Helens facing Castleford on Sunday. The Catalans Dragons will play in their special Nou Camp shirt
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In the Rugby | May 21, 2019Kenilworth RFC completed a tremendous treble-winning season lifting the RFU Intermediate Cup at Twickenham, having already won the Midlands Two West South title and Midlands Intermediate Cup on their way to the national final. The Twickenham result was a dream come true, a momentous day for the men in the Kenilworth jersey and the latest success in a treble winning season.
Kenilworth lifted the RFU Intermediate Cup following their 32-26 victory against a gallant Matson team. They led 22-5 at one stage but credit to Matson they battled the scoreboard back to a single point but Kenilworth showed composure and experience to push on. Overall it was end to end stuff for the full eighty minutes with nine tries scored.
Kenilworth captain Bobby Thompson told the Coventry Telegraph: "It was just unbelievable and I am just immensely proud of everyone involved at the club. It's been a real club and squad effort to achieve what we have this season and winning at Twickenham means so much to everyone!
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In the Rugby | May 21, 2019Honiton RFC are the pride of Devon - indeed the pride of West Country rugby after they bagged a thrilling 29-27 win over North Allerton in the final of the RFU Senior Vase played at Twickenham. It surely is every young Honiton rugby player’s dream now to pull on that Honiton jersey and run out at Twickenham!
Speaking ahead of the game, long standing Club President Dave Todd could only speak of his pride in the small club. “Pride. Pride for Honiton, for them, for the town. That's my dominant feeling, just complete pride. We're on a crest of a wave. That's going to be the pinnacle, the culmination of rugby life for Honiton. That's the biggest thing that Honiton has seen I think.”
Like all good clubs the focus in Honiton is on development and growing the grassroots and building from the bottom up.
“We want to keep our junior side going because they're the ones that feed the seniors. They're the heart of the club really. The part of the club that keeps the seniors going. We do struggle
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In the Zone | In the Rugby | May 20, 2019Going into the final day of the National One rugby season, Ampthill & District RFC only needed a single point to secure their promotion slot to Division 1. Having set a ferocious pace in the drive for promotion, the first XV pulled on the famous Ampthill & District RFC jersey and delivered in fine style, securing an historic promotion to the Championship with a comprehensive win over Loughborough Students.
The victory was all but sealed thanks to a blistering first half showing with tries by Maama Molitika, Matt Collins, Aleki Lutui and Joe Berics. Four more tries followed after the break to seal an epic win.
Ampthill & District have played four seasons in National One and now coaches Mark Lavery & Paul Turner will relish the prospect of testing their mettle against the likes of Ealing Trailfinders & Jersey next year and even possibly, Newcastle Falcons.
Ampthill & District RFC were founded 138 years ago in 1881. They play their home matches at Dillingham Park which has
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In the Rugby | May 15, 2019This weekend the Legendary Nou Camp in Barcelona will host rugby league for the first time in its history, when the Catalans Dragons play Super League champions Wigan.
The Dragons, the reigning Challenge Cup champions, will step out onto the spiritual home of Catalan sport wearing a specially designed O’Neills jersey in the traditional Barca Blaugrana colours. And ahead of the game, the O’Neills one off Catalans Dragons shirt is featured heavily on the Barca FC webpage and social media pages.
It is a fantastic occasion for the club, and as official kit suppliers it is a huge honour for O’Neills to see our jersey worn in one of the true Cathedrals of world sport, graced week in week out by the likes of Messi, Pique and forever associated with Cruyff, Guardiola, Romario, Ronaldinho, Xavi and Iniesta.
The Catalans Dragons are based 120 miles from Barcelona in Perpignan, France and they were invited to the Nou Camp by Barcelona football club after they won the Challenge Cup last August.
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In the Zone | In the GAA | March 08, 2019For International Women’s Day we caught up with Mayo and Collingwood star Sarah Rowe who’s living the life of a professional athlete in Australia. Exclusively for O’Neills Sarah talks 20x20, women’s sport on the rise and the absence of Coppers in Oz!
You coping with the lifestyle there ok?
The lifestyle is great, I’m not working over here, so I’m in the club every day, well five or six times a week anyway, using all the resources so it’s great.
We train Monday evenings, Wednesday evenings, Friday and Sunday and the other two days you’ve to get a gym session in. So quite similar here to home.
I go in to training about half three and don’t get home to about half ten at night. It’s a bit longer than at home, I suppose people work part-time and then train too, but the lifestyle is great.
It comes with its pressures. There’s a bit of pressure when you’re getting paid to play. I suppose there’s a different dynamic compared to LGFA but the pressure for performance is that bit greater. It’s
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In the Rugby | January 22, 2019Warrington Wolves Physical Disability Rugby League (PDRL) team travelled to Australia in August 2018, to take on Russell Crowes’ South Sydney Rabbitohs PDRL team in the inaugural PDRL World Club Challenge where they were crowned world champions.