* 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.

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.

The opening match was Lisnaskea vs. West Ulster selection, refereed by Johnny Monaghan, Ederney, followed by Roscommon ( All-Ireland finalists 1946 ) and Antrim ( All-Ireland semi finalists 1946 ) refereed by Jim Vallely, Armagh.

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.

Half of these Irish Americans were descended from Ulster people, and half were descended from the people of Connaught, Leinster and Munster.

The areas under the control of these kings were: Ulster (), Leinster (), Connacht (), Munster () and Mide ().

Thomas Charles-Edwards considers whether the Latin terms Scotti and Atacotti refer to the confederations in the Irish Kingdoms of Ulster and Leinster respectively.

Subsequently in 1848 New Zealand was divided into three provinces: New Ulster, New Munster, and New Leinster, each with their own Lieutenant Governors.

When New Zealand was separated from the colony of New South Wales in 1841 and established as a Crown colony in its own right, the Royal Charter effecting this provided that " the principal Islands, heretofore known as, or commonly called, the ' Northern Island ', the ' Middle Island ', and ' Stewart's Island ', shall henceforward be designated and known respectively as ' New Ulster ', ' New Munster ', and ' New Leinster '".

There are 537 Camogie clubs of which 513 ( 95. 5pc ) are based on the island of Ireland, 47 in Connacht ( 8. 8pc ), 195 in Leinster ( 36. 4pc ), 160 in Munster ( 29. 8pc ) and 110 in Ulster ( 20. 5pc ).

By recognising Brian's authority over Leth Moga, that is, the Southern Half, which included the Provinces of Munster and Leinster ( and the Hiberno-Norse cities within them ), Máel Sechnaill was simply accepting the reality that confronted him and retained control over Leth Cuinn, that is, the Northern Half, which consisted of the Provinces of Meath, Connacht, and Ulster.

Tindall summarises the roles that these old men play as those of the Four Masters, the Four Evangelists, and the four Provinces of Ireland ( " Matthew, from the north, is Ulster ; Mark, from the south, is Munster ; Luke, from the east, is Leinster ; and John, from the west, is Connaught ").

With the kings of Ulster and Leinster, he marched north to Mag nAi and forced Conn to make a treaty with him, diving Ireland between them: Conn controlling the north, or Leth Cuinn (" Conn's half "), and Mug Nuadat the south, or Leth Moga (" Mug's half "), with the border lying between Galway in the west and Dublin in the east.

After fifteen years of peace Mug Nuadat broke the treaty and declared war, along with the kings of Ulster and Leinster.

He shamed Cet at a feast at the house of Mac Dá Thó, a hospitaller of Leinster, when the warriors of Connacht and Ulster competed for the champion's portion by boasting of their deeds.

He fought Mes Gedra, king of Leinster, in single combat following a battle provoked by the Ulster poet Athirne.

Shane is a shortened form of Shannon and comes from the Ulster pronunciation of the name, whereas the names Shaun, Shawn or Sean come from the way it is pronounced in Munster, Leinster and Connaught.

He also won the Ulster Trophy Handicap at Dundrod and the Leinster Trophy at Wicklow that year.

The primary kingdoms were Connacht, Ailech, Airgíalla, Ulster, Mide, Leinster, Osraige, Munster and Thomond.

The names of Connacht, Ulster, Leinster and Munster are still in use, now applied to the four modern provinces of Ireland.

The Battle of Clontarf () took place on 23 April 1014 between the forces of Brian Boru and the forces led by the King of Leinster, Máel Mórda mac Murchada: composed mainly of his own men, Viking mercenaries from Dublin and the Orkney Islands led by his cousin Sigtrygg, as well as the one rebellious king from the province of Ulster.

The five provinces of Ireland are Ulster ( north ), Leinster ( east ), Connacht ( west ), Munster ( south ) and Meath ( the center ).

This ancient routeway had been for centuries the passage south out of Ulster into the Kingdom of Mide, Leinster and Munster but because of its narrowness Ulster armies had frequently ambushed and been ambushed at the pass.

This poorly supplied force nevertheless gained a very bad reputation for plundering and robbing friendly civilians around its quarters in northern Leinster and southern Ulster.

O ' Neill led his Ulster army, along with Thomas Preston's Leinster army, in a failed attempt to take Dublin from Ormonde.

The Ulster Cycle written in the 12th century, is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends and sagas of the traditional heroes of the Ulaid in what is now eastern Ulster and northern Leinster, particularly counties Armagh, Down and Louth.