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The international matches have finished and the wait is over ! Barnhall will Travel to the Vale on Saturday to take on 8th Placed Clonakilty in county Cork (home county of current President Liam Coleman). You will get all the team news and live commentry here on barnhallrfc.com from 2:00pm with thanx to KFM Radio.

We would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused, whilst our site was down due to illegal hacking of the domain name. We hope we have seen the last of it !

There will be a Memorial service To-night Thursday  23 rd November 2006 At 9.30 pm In remembrance of those who died during the past year and past members families and friends.
Everyone Welcome

Barnhall Under 20's sit nicely at the top of the J P Fanagan Pennant - Div 1 after a fine Try from Daryl Furlong in a great match away to 4th placed coolmine ...more

Chris Leavy and Ben Harrison will miss Leinster League action for the 18's this coming weekend as they continuing to push for representative honours. They have been invited to a weekend squad training camp with the Irish youths at Bray, followed by a training match. 
Good luck to both in their pursuit of the Green Jersey !

The final minute of this terrific battle brought Barnhall another bitterly disappointing defeat in the Leinster Premier League South.
Barnhall came into this game looking for a powerful start ...more
Just added meet the Barnhall Under 16's ...More

Band of Brothers back in France
By Noel Dillion 15th of November 2006

Last season Barnhall RFC made a small bit of history for the club and possibly for any team in Rugby in Ireland . In a friendly encounter with the Toulouse under 23 academy Barnhall fielded no fewer then four sets of brothers. We are aware of the feet achieved by Clonakilty RFC where they have seven sets of brothers in the club at the same time but they have never had more then three sets of brother's play in any one game. Other clubs may be able to top this statistic. It would be really interesting to see if a team ever took the field in a rugby match with more sets of brothers or with a very large no of brothers from a single family.
The brothers in question that performed in the French adventure, which for the record Barnhall won, included, Eoin and Paul Burke, Earl and Ronnie Brennan (brother of Trevor Brennan) Jack and Joe Looby, (Sons of Barnhall President of the time) and the Dunne's Barry and Cormack who could be described as the baby brothers in this particular grouping.
Barnhall has had a significant if not long history of large families involved in playing with the club. In total six of the Burke children have played competitively for the club with the five boys Conrad, Declan, Eoin, Paul and Brendan (now playing with Rotherham in the UK league) and Fiona who played for the Ladies team. We have had three Families with three sets of brothers playing, the O'Connor's, the Cullen's and the Pardy's
The Brennan Family already mentioned above had four sons who played in the club and Rory the proud Father of the now famous rugby family participated vigorously in the Golden oldies being a late convert to the egg shaped ball. We did have a Father and son combinations performing in senior matches. Pat “Ginger” Connolly a founding father of Barnhall and his son Barry played in a number of friendly matches and Seamus a Hoare and his son Derek played in competitive league matches for the second team. Seamus was a Gaelic football hero for Donegal for a number of years when he joined the boys in Blue in Barnhall. Seamus played several sports to an exceptional standard and in his later years togged out at full back. His son Derek who stood six foot five played on the wing. Back then the winger and not the no 2 had the task of throwing in the ball but in Derek's case on our line out Derek stood anywhere in the line and we threw the ball to him.
I have not covered the long list of brothers in the youths or mini ranks. With luck they will become the Brennan's and Burkes of the future. We could also do with a few Looby, Cullen and Smyth boys as the committee effort needs support as well. All in all rugby in Barnhall is a Family Affair.

Titans centre Brendan Burke continues to excel at the Earth Arena since joining from Leinster in the summer.
Burke, 25, played alongside the likes of Brian O'Driscoll, Shane Horgan and Felipe Contempomi in Dublin, appearing in all but one of Leinster's six Heineken Cup matches three seasons ago and earning a call-up to an Ireland training squad before succumbing to a serious groin injury.
These days, the company he keeps on the rugby field is slightly less august, but Burke is perfectly content. He is happy to be playing after spending most of his time at Leinster on the bench – his three Heineken Cup starts came when O'Driscoll and Denis Hickie were injured.
"There were not many vacancies," he said.
"They even had internationals on the bench. It was very hard to get a game."
The Earth Titans certainly appreciate him. Asked what the versatile player's best position is, coach Andre Bester was unequivocal.
"Anything from 9 to 15," he said.
"He's a very special player. He's like O'Driscoll in defence. He doesn't miss tackles and he's so quick onto the ball to make turnovers, and he's got great hands.
"There's no doubt, he's a Premiership player. I know that guys in Ireland will try to get him back, but I will try twice as hard to keep him."
He may not have to try very hard. Burke, who prefers to play at full-back or outside centre, is in no rush to return home.
He does not give the impression that he is using the Titans as a stepping stone.
"I've no plans at the moment," said the qualified electrician, who is working as Rotherham's video analyst.
"We are still looking like we are going to get promoted and if we do that, there's no reason to leave. And if we don't, we could have another good season like this one and there's still no reason to leave."

Taken from www.rotherhamrugby.co.uk

Edenderry u14s will travel to play barnhall u14s this Sunday (12th November) for kick off at 11.30am. This replaces the original metro fixture with Bective who have asked for a postponement. This has been provisionally rearranged for the 24th November.

Yes! It's only 1 month away and we are having our annual private members draw which raises much needed funds for the club tickets cost €100 the draw will take place in the club house on the 9th of December at 9pm (only 100 ticket's)

1st Prize	€2,500
2nd Prize	€1,500
3rd Prize	€500
4th Prize	€200
5th Prize	€200
6th Prize	€200
7th Prize	€200
8th Prize	€200

For More Information Contact Eamon

Minis Fixtures has been updated click here for more....
Pictures coming soon Watch this space !!!

Have you ever wanted to follow the blue bulls on tour but leave the car behind and enjoy a few pints? Why not contact Conor Anderson he is the man in charge of organizing the blue bull tours and you have a 100% barnhallrfc.com guarantee of good banter for the road trip. The Clonakilty game is on Saturday the 9th of December (next A.I.L game)

If you listen to Ray Darcy on today fm you will be familiar with AQA (Any question Answered) and when a barnhall supporter asked what is the best Irish club rugby website ? they got back AQA thinks that www.barnhallrfc.com is the best rugby website in Ireland. AQA likes the colour scheme, the simplicity, and the accessibility of info.” why not ask AQA a question click here

We have updated our N.U.I.M parts of the site click here to meet the teams. or click here for fixtures. We will be keeping a close eye on how John Bagnall and the lads & ladies are getting on throughout the season.

Barnhall finished the first quarter of their AIL league fixtures in style at Parsonstown on Saturday. Facing a very powerful Young Munster side who narrowly failed to achieve promotion to division 1 more...

Due to popular demand we have included the Barnhall Anthem in the About the club area. So now you'll have no excuses not to sing along ! more...

Barnhall 31 Young Munster 13 Blue bulls win at home twice in a row and go top of the league but Luke Doddrell sent off....... There will be a full report here on Monday.

Barnhall 24 Young Munster 8

If you can't make today's big game why not listen to live updates. Our very own Noel Dillion will give live updates every 15 mins brought to you by KFM Radio & barnhallrfc.com

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This coming sunday we kick-off away to Nass at 11 oc. We leave Barnhall at 9.30 sharp. Jonathan Geogeghan in charge.

At long last the fixtures for J3 and J4 have arrived. Can everyone please put in the extra effort to come training tonight. As we would like to be able to do up numbers.

Now it's your turn to show your a true blue by downloading one of our new www.barnhallrfc.com wallpapers. Screen savers and other cool bits will be added soon. As always feedback would be great. check out the download section for more.

Referee: Alastair McDowell ( Ulster ) Kick-off: 2:30pm

Barnhall 4th in table
The first of three homes to Munster clubs this season; first played AIBL against Young Munster club during the 2002 / 03 season ;have yet to register a victory in four AIBL fixtures with Young Munster ;have played away to the Kookies over the past two seasons ; will be our 107th AIBL fixture ;which of the two Connollys will kick the most points today ?have lost their last three AIBL fixtures at home to clubs from Limerick ; Could be our 60th AIBL win.
MOST POINTS: 29 Cathal Connolly

Young Munster 9th in table
The second of five visits to Leinster this season;On Saturday play their 40th AIBL game away in Leinster and are seeking their 16th success ; beat Barnhall 18-16 on their only previous ( Nov. 2003 ) AIBL visit to Parsonstown ; On Saturday play their 201st AIBL fixture ;are seeking their 100th AIBL victory ;have won two and lost three of their last five AIBL games away in the Leinster province ;Will be the first of three consecutive games against Leinster clubs ;have scored as many points ( 60 ) as they have conceded in Div. Two so far this season.
MOST POINTS: 27 Mark Connolly
MOST TRIES : 2 Derek Corcoran, Darren Classens

Why not enjoy a pre-match meal at this game click here

After two hectic weekends of European action, Ireland's squad members are back in camp in Dublin as coach Eddie O'Sullivan prepares his men for "a different challenge."
Between Saturday and November 26 the last three rugby internationals will be played at Lansdowne Road before the Dublin 4 stadium's eagerly-awaited redevelopment.
South Africa and Australia, the two teams stationed immediately above the fifth-ranked Irish in the world rankings, and a Pacific Islands team coached by Pat Lam, will provide the opposition as O'Sullivan's men tune up for next year's RBS 6 Nations and Rugby World Cup.
The Corkman will be using these Autumn internationals to blood some new players and add some strength in depth - there are four uncapped players in the provisional 32-man squad.
After watching his players go through a non-contact session in Bray on Monday, O'Sullivan said: "It's a bit different from previous autumns when you go out saying you want to win against big guns like South Africa and Australia.
"You still would like to do that but this time around I'm keeping one eye on the World Cup and am considering a bit more depth in the squad, certainly in some positions. There are new faces and I would like to use the three games to get more people on the pitch.
"Having said that, I'm not going out with the attitude that it's an experiment - it's not. We want to win the three Test matches, but we have more elbow room. The first game (against South Africa) will tell us a lot about how we are and hopefully we'll have more room for manoeuvring over the course of the three games.
"I don't want to go down that road, of sacrificing results. We want to win games and I don't want to base team selection on whether it doesn't matter if we win a game," he added.
O'Sullivan was a busy man during the past fortnight, travelling around the country and abroad to check on his players' movements in the Heineken Cup. Quietly satisfied about the provinces' form, he insisted: "All three Irish teams are well in contention for Heineken Cup honours. It was disappointing, of course, for Ulster and Leinster to lose at the weekend, but it's not a disaster (for them).
"Now we've to focus the guys on a different challenge over the next few weeks, and they won't need any reminding of that. The important thing is that we have no really serious injury problems as we face into this three-match series."
Both Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell sat out last year's Autumn internationals due to injury and having the key duo back for the 2006 series has added further confidence to an Irish squad already thriving on the rude health of the provinces.
The swings and roundabouts nature of rugby means that could all change soon, but the pre-season conditioning work that O'Driscoll and company got through has provided them with the ideal platform to prosper in this long stretch before next September's World Cup kick-off.
Reflecting on the IRFU's pre-season conditioning programme, O'Sullivan said: "I think we have a pretty good system in place that tries to make sure that players are given the opportunity to hit the ground running at the start of every season.
"The way our system works sometimes puts the provinces under pressure, and that's not always perfect from their point of view, but I think it's good for the players and therefore, good for the teams.
"New Zealand recently adopted a system to ensure that the bulk of their top players would be properly man-managed in advance of the World Cup - I think recognition was given to the way we operate here.
"Some countries either don't or just cannot do the same. We're more in control of our own destiny. After that, you have to rely on a bit of good fortune."

The Wait is Over !

Another Try ! for Daryl Furlong in Coolmine

Ben Harrison (Middle) showing the All Ireland Trophy the team he captained won last season held up by fellow Leinster team mates Ray Dufficy Jnr. (Left) and Padraic Beatty Jnr. (Right)

Band of Brothers The Burkes
(L-R) Brendan,Declan, Paul,Eoin,Conrad

Bren Burke continues to excel at Earth Arena

There is only one place to get all your N.U.I Maynooth Rugby news that's right here @ www.barnhallrfc.com

Barnhall have to wait until after the international break to play Clonakilty on the 2nd of December

Show your a true blue with some Barnhall Wallpaper

Barnhall V's Young Munster this Saturday 2:30 at home

Eddie O'Sullivan prepares for "a different challenge"

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