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Ulster and Rugby
* Ulster Titans, Rugby Union team based in Belfast, Northern Ireland
The capacity of the proposed Stadium was later adjusted to first 35, 000 and then 38, 000 and the organising bodies of all three sports-Irish FA, Ulster Rugby and Ulster GAA-agreed in principle to support the integrated scheme.
Former players include Munster Second Row Ian Nagle, who played juvenile rugby for Mallow and Ulster Prop Jerry Cronin, who played juvenile and Junior Rugby for the club.
Following the political partition of Ireland into separate national states, the Republic of Ireland ( originally the Irish Free State then Éire ) and Northern Ireland ( a political division of the United Kingdom ), the then Committee of the Irish Rugby Football Union decided that it would continue to administer its affairs on the basis of the full 32 Irish counties and the traditional four provinces of Ireland: Leinster ( 12 counties ), Ulster ( 9 counties ), Munster ( 6 counties ), and Connacht ( 5 counties ).
At the 2011 Rugby World Cup, the Ireland team entered the field of play at the beginning of their matches with the Irish tricolour and the Flag of Ulster.
* Ulster Rugby
Rugby gradually became the main use of the grounds: the first representative rugby match was an inter provincial fixture between Leinster and Ulster in December 1876, and on 11 March 1878, Lansdowne Road hosted its first international rugby fixture, against England, making it the world's oldest rugby union Test venue.
* Ulster Rugby vs Leinster Rugby
The stadium itself would be used for both football and rugby union, with Glentoran and Ulster Rugby intended as tenants.
* Ulster Rugby players Bryn Cunningham and Kieron Dawson attended Bangor Grammar School
Bank of Ireland is a major sponsor of rugby union in Ireland, being the shirt sponsor of three of the four Irish provincial teams ( Connacht Rugby, Leinster Rugby and Ulster Rugby ).
He has since played most of Gloucester Rugby's games scoring a handful of tries including one against Ulster Rugby in the Heineken Cup, where he contributed to Gloucester Rugby setting a new record in the Tournament's history, the fastest time to score four tries and collect the try bonus point.
* Professional rugby player Darren Cave playing for Ulster Rugby and helped Ireland U20 lift the 6 nations Grand Slam in 2007
At the 2011 Rugby World Cup, the Ireland team entered the field of play at the beginning of their matches with the Irish tricolour and the Flag of Ulster, to which the six Irish counties in Northern Ireland belong.
* Ballynahinch Rabbitohs rugby league football club are current Ulster Rugby league champions and have now won three consecutive titles from 2009-2011.
Ulster Rugby, usually referred to simply as Ulster, is one of the four professional provincial rugby teams from Ireland.
The Ulster Rugby kit is manufactured by Kukri Sports.
In the amateur Rugby Union era Ulster regularly played international touring sides from the southern hemisphere, their most impressive performance coming in the 1984 / 5 season when they defeated Andrew Slack's " Grand Slam " Wallabies.
In July 2004, Solomons departed for Northampton Saints and Mark McCall, a former captain of the province and a member of Ulster ’ s European Cup-winning squad took over as Ulster Rugby head coach with European Cup teammate Allen Clarke as his assistant.

Ulster and branch
The GNR Board cut back the Cookstown branch to Coalisland in 1956 and the Ulster Transport Authority ( UTA ) closed the branch altogether in 1959.
In 2009, the First Active branch network and business of several hundred thousand savers and borrowers was merged with Ulster Bank, and the brand name was retired in 2010.
High Kings from the northern branch ruled various kingdoms in what eventually became the province of Ulster.
Cole was born into the Ulster branch of ' the Ascendancy ', the Anglo-Irish aristocracy.
The Ulster Third Way is the Northern Ireland branch of the Third Way and is organised by David Kerr, who had previously campaigned as an ' independent Unionist ' ( chairing the small North Belfast Independent Unionist Association ) as well as for the British National Front.
In 2008 Sinn Fein councillor Billy Leonard claimed that convicted loyalist murderer and a member of the Ulster Freedom Fighters unit which carried out the Greysteel massacre, Torrens Knight was a member of the Kilrea branch of the Apprentice Boys and had laid a wreath at the village Cenotaph. This was denied by a spokesman for the group and by Knight himself. The organisation demanded an explanation and an apology from Sinn Fein for making the claims.
Its line was a branch that joined the Ulster Railway main line Knockmore Junction, giving Dromore a direct link to and.
In the early 17th century, a branch of the Hamilton dynasty moved to Ulster in Ireland.
** Ulster Third Way, a Northern Ireland branch of the UK party
Ulster Third Way, which registered as a political party in February 2001, is the Northern Ireland branch of the UK-wide Third Way, albeit with much stronger emphasis on the Northern Ireland question.
However, Armstrong has been historically associated with the Ulster Gaelic name, Mac Tréan-Labhraidh, a branch of the Ó Labhradha family.

Ulster and Irish
Achill Irish still has many traces of Ulster Irish.
It was faced with the prospect of battling Anglo-Irish and Ulster Scots peoples in Ireland, who alongside their other Irish groups had raised their own volunteer army and threatened to emulate the American colonists if their conditions were not met.
The British Army found itself fighting Irish rebels, both Protestant and Catholic, primarily in Ulster and Leinster ( Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen ) in the 1798 rebellion.
The locally recruited Ulster Defence Regiment was formed, later becoming home service battalions in the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992, before being disbanded in 2006.
In the following twenty years, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other smaller republican groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) mounted an armed campaign against the British, by which they meant the RUC, the British Army, the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) of the British Army ( and, according to their critics, the Protestant and unionist establishment ).
With rival paramilitary organisations appearing in both the nationalist / republican and Irish unionist / Ulster loyalist communities ( the Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ), etc.
The Cuban government supported and still supports the Republican cause, but opposed the attacks which took place on civilian targets by Sinn Féin's military ally, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and of course attacks on civilians by their loyalist enemies such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association.
The Annals of Ulster record the defeat of an Irish fleet from the kingdom of Ulaid by Vikings " on the coast of England " at about this time.
There have been attempts to find the cern root in the name of Conall Cernach, the foster brother of the Irish hero Cuchulainn in the Ulster Cycle.
* Connacht Irish, Munster Irish, Ulster Irish
The Plantation of Ulster followed during which the lands of the native Irish were seized and handed over to planters loyal to the English Crown.
The town's name ( with the archaic spelling ) continues to form part of the title to The Royal Irish Regiment ( 27th ( Inniskilling ) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment ).
The British government and Ulster unionists refused to accept the legitimacy of the newly declared nation, precipitating the Irish War of Independence.
* 1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
Half of these Irish Americans were descended from Ulster people, and half were descended from the people of Connaught, Leinster and Munster.
The passage of the Bill through Parliament over the next two years was accompanied in Ireland by the formation of first unionist, and then nationalist, mass-membership armed militias: the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Irish Volunteers, respectively.
The County of Roscommon was separated from Connacht before 1292, and the first session of the Irish parliament in 1297 created the new shires of County Kildare, Meath and Ulster.
Reference to Imbolc is made in Irish mythology, in the Tochmarc Emire of the Ulster Cycle.

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