The Women’s team headed to Castle Avenue on Sunday for Round 8 of their Leinster league. Though they were missing a few girls they welcomed back experienced campaigners Sandra McAleer, Anne O’Brien and Leanne Whyte. The game started with Clontarf on the front foot and Balbriggan seemed to be still in the dressing room as they were playing 2nd fiddle for the first 15 mins. Tarf missed an easy 3 point kick in front of the posts and whatever Olivia Malone said to the girls in the huddle it worked. Continue reading →

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! The annual North East Santa Blitz takes place this Sunday morning, December 3rd, at Balbriggan RFC starting at 10am. It’s always a great family day.
We’ve got breakfast sorted with Java the Hut and Froggy’s Crepes on-site all morning.
U7’s/U8’s and U9’s from around the North East will play a few friendly games, and get the chance to meet Santa and his helpers too!
Each year the Santa Blitz has a designated charity and this year is no different. This years charity is the Peter McVerry Trust, a charity that works tirelessly to help the homeless. There will be a bucket collection on the day, all support is very much appreciated.
With 40 teams arriving at the club, the car park will be very busy. Car pooling or travelling by bus would be a huge help to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Hope everyone enjoys the day, and don’t forget your Santa hat!

Balbriggan RFC is delighted to announce that we will receive funding of €130,000 under the Sports Capital Grants Scheme, in the current round of funding. Balbriggan is the youngest town in Ireland. It is important that there are sporting facilities available for a young and growing population. Without the sports capital grant, community based clubs like ours would not be in a position to develop their facilities.This grant will be used to further develop our grounds by developing an additional pitch for the club, and for the use of the wider community.
We would like to thank local politicians Cllr Tony Murphy, TD Alan Farrell and Senator James Reilly who worked on our behalf.
It’s great news for our club, our town and the greater community.

Orders for the forthcoming home games in the 6 Nations please should be made to either Gerry Hennigan (hennigang@gmail.com) or Robert Cashell (rcashell@eircom.net) preferably by email no later than 5pm Friday 1^st December 2017.

Unlike the Autumn Internationals we have a fixed number of tickets for these games, about half of what we ordered for the Autumn games.  In order to apply for tickets you must be a fully paid up member of the Club.

If there is an oversubscription for tickets preference will be given to those who are actively involved eg coaches, players, committees etc.

We have tickets in Categories 1-4.  (The prices including Leinster and Club levies totalling €5) are set out below.

All kickoffs are 14:15

While we will try, we cannot guarantee that you will get the tickets requested.   Applicants will be advised as to whether or not they have been allocated tickets by Friday 8^th December.

Now for the bad news, tickets will have to be paid for in full by 31 December 2017.  In prior years the Club were able to fund the tickets until the cash was collected but not anymore. The Club have to pay for the tickets in the first week of January.

Please note that you will be advised no later than Friday 15^th December as to your allocation and payment must be received in full before the end of December. In the event that payment in full has not been received by the end of December your allocation may be redistributed.

Finally, there were some errors during the allocation and charging of this year’s Autumn Internationals which caused some frustration, this was human error and we wish to apologies for any inconvenience.  If anyone still has an issue please contact rcashell@eircom.net.

Congratulations to our club sponsor Luke Moriarty on receiving the Fingal Business Person of the Year Excellence Award for 2017.  A great achievement and just reward for over 25 years in business in Fingal.

Tickets for the Autumn Internationals will be available for collection at the club on Thursday November 2nd, at 7.15pm-8pm.

Fixtures Sunday October 22nd

Mini & Youth Home Fixtures
Balbriggan’s U12’s will host Barnhall & Clondalkin. KO 10am
U16’s play Suttonians in a Leinster League fixture. KO 11am
U17’s play Westmanstown in a Leinster League fixture. KO 12.30pm

Senior Fixtures

Balbriggan’s Women’s team are at home to Wexford. KO 1pm.

IXV are at home to Arklow. KO 3pm.

On a drizzly damp afternoon Balbriggan ladies travelled to Navan for their 4th league encounter. On the back of 3 good wins Balbriggan took the game to Navan from the off. Lorna McKenna on catching the kick off went on a rampaging run making 45 metres. Quick recycling of the ball and quick hands across the backs freed Kelly Morgan and she touched down. Continue reading →

Balbriggan RFC are holding a fancy dress party in the Bracken Court Hotel on Friday 27th October. It promises to be a great night of fun. All are welcome to come along to this social night. Tickets are €15 each and are available at the club. There are great prizes for best dressed male, female and best dressed couple on the night. For more information email info@balbrigganrfc.com.