The FRONT ROW UNION

What can you write about the legend that is Neil McConkey? Neil has been cycling for Ulster and comic relief over the last few months, travelling from Belfast to Limerick, Dublin and [more]

There is no question that, for Ulster fans, players and management alike, getting to the Heineken Cup final is a heck of an achievement, and despite the stabilisation of the [more]

When POC picked up his knee injury against Ulster last weekend, while I felt every sympathy for him, I couldn’t help but feel that if he were to miss the [more]

Exodus – a departure or going out or away from a place that involves large numbers of people So it begins. The Ulstermen (women and children), enumerated at 40,000 able-bodied [more]

  Flags are the bane of the Ulster fans’ forums – of course everyone these days professes to be ‘totally relaxed’ about what flags are flown where, yet somehow, absurdly, [more]

Ulsterman Neil McConkey completed another leg of his Heineken Cup Cycle on Saturday as he travelled from Belfast to Dublin on his bike for Ulster Rugby in aid of Sport [more]

Picking over the reports of Ulster’s semi-final, the consensus seems to be that Edinburgh played the better rugby, made more chances, but profligacy let Ulster off the hook; Ulster on [more]

Flight tickets – check… Match tickets – check… Ulster shirt, hat and scarf – check… Lucky underpants – check… Extreme, sphincter-twitching build-up of nerves – check… The teams are out [more]

Time Waits for Nothing There’s something in the air In Belfast. The oul timers will recognise it as a feint stirring of secreted passion amongst the ordinary town folk of [more]

I have wracked my brains and thought about this weekend’s match against Edinburgh up and down, and the more I think of it, the more ‘fearty’ I become. The reason? [more]

Just a quick warning to get your tee shirt orders in on or before Monday 23rd April if you want to guarantee delivery before the Heineken Cup semi final in [more]

One of the beauty’s about cycling is that large chunks of your time can be spent in mild reverie as you saunter through the North Down countryside. So it was [more]

Ulsterman Neil McConkey is getting on his bike for Ulster Rugby in aid of Sport Relief. Neil came up with the idea of uniting two good causes last month while [more]

Almost exactly 3 years ago, Harlequins hosted Leinster in a HEC quarter-final, in a match which was to become notorious for ‘Bloodgate’. For Leinster, however, it was significant for a [more]

Got sent this collection of classic one liners, from the dearly departed Frank Carson, and I must admit it did make me chuckle. I’ve loaded them on my phone and I’ll be [more]

I was standing in the middle of those flinty faced Munstermen, they staring unto the pitch as though summoning the gods of wrath to wreak havoc on Ulster. The time [more]

Some of you that know me may be aware that, due to international tax laws, FRU headquarters are moving next week to Galway, home of Connacht Rugby. While some may speculate that the move [more]

…can anyone think of another sentence containg the words ‘Farrelly’, ‘Dumb’ and ‘Dumber’? On a completely unrelated point, I see that Hugh Farrelly, the Irish Independent’s nativism and anti-immigration correspondent [more]