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Women: Leinster 24 Ulster 20

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John McMurtry

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I thought it would be hard to top the previous evenings performance by Ulster’s men but the women very nearly pulled off a remarkable victory in a thrilling encounter at Ashbourne on Saturday afternoon.

Ulster stormed back from a 14 – 0 half time deficit, with tries from Stacey Lea Kennedy, Nikki Caughey, Ashleigh Baxter and Claire McLaughlin, to lead 14 – 20 deep into the second half. Unfortunately Leinster hit back with two late tries to claim the game at the final whistle.

Ulster started the game well, putting the hosts under pressure in the opening exchanges.  Unfortunately the visitors were unable to make the pressure count and Leinster worked their way back into the game with their scrum and lineout to the fore.

The game was now being played in the Ulster half and Leinster finally made the pressure count when, on the quarter hour mark, Nora Stapleton put Jenny Murphy clear out left for the centre to . . .

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10 responses to “Women: Leinster 24 Ulster 20”

  1. Ballymoney R.F.C – Womens Team on Facebook

    PS – Glad to see you still capturing the ‘moment’ as demonstrated in your first picture!! lol 😉

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  2. Ballymoney R.F.C – Womens Team on Facebook

    Sorted – Stacey Lea is back on demand – cleared the browser cache and clutter and that seems to have sorted it – Cheers John – take her easy sir 😉

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  3. Ballymoney R.F.C – Womens Team on Facebook

    So it’s just me that is borked 😀 – I feel all alone now LOL – Cheers for the info John – gonna have to check what the prob is might be – I want my Stacey Lea on demand!! lol 😉

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  4. John

    I’ve checked all the vids on IE8/XP and they are working fine so the problem may be your end Mikey?

    Everything works in IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

    Site is best viewed on Google Chrome 🙂

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  5. Ballymoney R.F.C – Womens Team on Facebook

    Oh – saying that none of the other embedded vids work either – could it be a plugin prob since YouTube seem to have updated their site recently?

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  6. Ballymoney R.F.C – Womens Team on Facebook

    I want to hear Stacey Lea – not now – but right now :p – The embedded video is not working John – well at least not here on IE 8, WinXP 😉

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  7. The Front Row Union on Facebook

    Technical error with the pics – they are up now.

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  8. Malcolm

    Are there no photos with this report?

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    1. John

      Yep – they are up now Malcolm

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  9. The Front Row Union on Facebook

    Report, pictures and video now up on the site.

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