* 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.

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 Ulster historian Richard Warner has theorised that the Midlands leader Túathal Techtmar, usually thought mythical, was in fact historical and went to Britain to get Roman support for his military campaigns ( along with other later exiles ).

A traditional Irish breakfast is usually accompanied by soda bread but in Northern Ireland an Ulster fry can contain fried soda farls.

In Ulster, the wholemeal variety is usually known as wheaten bread and normally sweetened, while the term " soda bread " is restricted to the white savoury form.

In more southern parts of Ireland, the wholemeal variety is usually known as brown soda and is almost identical to the Ulster wheaten.

The early Ulster immigrants and their descendants at first usually referred to themselves simply as " Irish ," without the qualifier " Scotch.

Salutes in Northern Ireland are usually fired from Hillsborough Castle by 206 ( Ulster ) Battery, although recently they have also been fired from HMS Caroline in Belfast Harbour.

The same Threefold Death is said in a late poem to have befallen Diarmait's predecessor, Muirchertach macc Ercae, and even the usually reliable Annals of Ulster record Muirchertach's death by drowning in a vat of wine.

He now lives relatively openly in England, having refused to adopt a new identity, and works as a security consultant, occasional advisor to the Ulster Unionist Party, and media pundit, usually whenever the IRA has made a major announcement.

Survivors of this in Ulster today are usually called Duddy, Dowd or Dowds.

Unionists tend to use the Union Flag and sometimes the Ulster Banner, while nationalists usually use the Flag of Ireland, or sometimes the Flag of Ulster.

Among those who vote for mainstream Unionist parties in Northern Ireland, Catholic Unionists usually support the more moderate Ulster Unionist Party, as opposed to the Democratic Unionist Party because of the anti-Catholic religious doctrine of the former DUP Party leader Ian Paisley.

Potato farls are square slices ( usually around 0. 5-1 cm in thickness ) of soft potato bread, lightly powdered with flour and are common in Ulster, especially Northern Ireland.

A dish from Ulster is the Ulster fry, usually served at breakfast.

The flag of Ulster is usually displayed alongside the flags of Leinster, Munster, Connacht, or as part of the combined flag of the Provinces of Ireland.

Ian Paisley, future British MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, and Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, who has referred to the Pope as a " Roman anti-Christ.

Many Williamite troops at the Boyne, including their very effective irregular cavalry, were Protestants from Ulster, who called themselves " Inniskillingers " and were referred to by contemporaries as " Scots-Irish ".

In more modern times, Cú Chulainn is often referred to as the " Hound of Ulster ".

While once referred to as Scotch-Irish by several researchers, that has now been superseded by the term Ulster Scots.

The UDA were often referred to by their Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) rivals as the " Wombles ", derived from the furry fictional creatures, The Wombles.

The UDA were often referred to as " Wombles " by their rivals, mainly the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ).

Carson always referred to the nine counties of Ulster, but Law told Asquith that if an appropriate settlement could be made with a smaller number Carson " would see his people and probably, though I could not give any promise to that effect, try to induce them to accept it ".

The mainly Roman Catholic Irish republicans or nationalists community, mainly descended from the native Irish inhabitants, identify as Irish and want the six counties of Northern Ireland ( sometimes referred to as " Ulster ") currently part of the United Kingdom to leave the UK and unite with the Republic of Ireland.

:... the Earl of Ulster was treacherously seized while performing penance, unarmed and barefooted, in the churchyard of Downpatrick, on Good Friday, anno 1203, and sent over to England, where the king condemned him to perpetual imprisonment in the Tower ... After de Courcy had been in confinement about a year, a dispute happening to arise between King John and Philip Augustus of France concerning the Duchy of Normandy, the decision of which being referred to single combat, King John, more hasty than advised, appointed the day, against which the King of France provided his champion ; but the King of England, less fortunate, could find no one of his subjects willing to take up the gauntlet, until his captive in the Tower, the stout Earl of Ulster, was prevailed upon to accept the challenge.

In medieval texts they are also referred to as the Clanna Rudraige ( modern spelling: Clanna Rudhraighe, anglicization: Clanna Rury ) meaning " descendants of Rudraige " – whence the modern Irish term Rúraíocht ( the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology ).

* Ulster, a poem ( also referred to as Ulster 1912 ) written in 1912 by Rudyard Kipling, dedicated to Irish Unionists

Dublin for example, referred to in the text as either Áth Cliath or Duiblinn, is described in the Annals of Ulster with entries ranging from the settlement of Dublin by Vikings (“ The heathens still at Duiblinn ” in 842. 2 and “ An encampment of the foreigners of Áth Cliath at Cluain Andobuir ” in 845. 12 ) to deaths of notable names (“ Carlus son of Conn son of Donnchad was killed in Áth Cliath ” in 960. 2 ) to Dublin being ruled by the Irish (“ The foreigners returned to Áth Cliath and gave hostages to Brian ” in 1000. 4 ).

In a letter to the press in January 1975, he referred to sectarian murders in Ulster and said that " the conflict is not now between two religions or cultures, but between society and its enemies ".

Iago ab Idwal ( ruled 950 – 979 ) was a King of Gwynedd and possibly Powys, also referred to as " King of the Britons " by the Annals of Ulster.