After a nervous start in the O’Sullivan cup this season our junior development team have scored 2 draws and one win recently to climb from […] Leinster Chess Union Junior Grand Prix Tournament Series 2017   Tournament 1: February 26th –  Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth, W23 C2V1, Co. Kildare (Map) Tournament 2:  March […] The entries for the Irish junior championship (7th – 9th April) are now available on the ICU website. There is  Special Offer of €15 for the first 25 […] Best of luck to the 6 Blanchardstown players taking part in the Leinster Junior Chess Championship over the next few days. The 2017 Leinster Juniors Championship will take place Jan 1st – 4th, in the Esplanade Hotel, Bray. This is a very well run tournament by […] Photos from yesterday’s Leinster Chess Union Competition (The Mick Germane Cup)  featuring 7 Blanchardstown teams: We have received an invitation to take part in a tournament in Austria in Feburary 2017. Our very own Gabór is a regular attender and […]

If you interested in purchasing a club hoodie please fill in the form below before Sunday 3rd of December. The hoodies will be printed to order. The Mick Germaine Cup 2016 for Junior novice players is happening on Sunday 11th of December. Blanchardstown hopes to send at least 2 teams of our […]ymcmb hoodie price Club Reopening: The club will be reopening this weekend following our summer break: The junior club will meet on Saturday 3rd of September in Mountview […]hoodie creepypasta halloween costumeMatt O'Connor has named his starting XV for Leinster's Pro 12 clash with Benetton Treviso on Friday night, making five changes to the side that lost to Ulster two weeks ago. jackson kayak hoodie

The Blues play their last home game, bar a Champions Cup qualification play-off, of a disappointing season at the RDS tomorrow, with no chance of reaching the play-offs of the competition after losing at the Kingspan Stadium. Dave Kearney missed the Ulster game with a hip flexor strain but returns at left wing to face the Italians in place of Luke Fitzgerald who had surgery last weekend on his shoulder. superdry sale damen hoodieZane Kirchner is selected on the right wing, with Rob Kearney again starting at full back. mcd hoodiesIan Madigan returns at centre with Ben Te'o selected at outside centre for his 13th game of the campaign. directv hoodiesEoin Reddan and Jimmy Gopperth complete the backs, selected at scrum half and outhalf respectively. wildwood nj hoodie

Friday will be Jimmy Gopperth's last home game for Leinster, barring the play-off, before he leaves for Wasps in the summer. To date the New Zealand native has scored 347 points in 57 appearances for the Blues. In the front row Jack McGrath starts, together with Richardt Strauss and Mike Ross. Devin Toner and Mike McCarthy, who will win his 50th cap for Leinster on Friday, are once again selected in the second row. The back row consists of Jordi Murphy at blindside flanker, Sean O'Brien at openside and Jamie Heaslip captains the side from the base of the scrum. Both Shane Jennings, who retires at the end of the season and Gordon D'Arcy, who is due to retire in October, will be introduced to the crowd at the RDS tomorrow night. The two players have made over 200 appearances each for the Blues and scored over 400 points between them. Jennings will be presented to the crowd before the game, while D'Arcy will take to the pitch after the final whistle. Jamie Heaslip (Captain) Replacements: 16.

We ship to Singapore . Irish Rugby Shirts and T-Shirts Take a look at our selection of Irish Rugby shirts from Lansdowne and there are also Guinness ones in the Guinness Clothing Section. Maybe now is the time to treat yourself, or indeed someone else, to one of these great shirts.The 2014/15 season was, by Leinster’s impressive recent standards, a pretty miserable one. In the new Champions Cup, the men in blue might have made it to the semi-finals, but they were unable to their tally of three European titles by going one step further, while in the Pro12, they finished fifth, missing out on the playoffs for the first time since the format was introduced, and recording their worst league finish since 2003. It was a season that led to the departure of head coach Matt O’Connor, but with the return of talisman Johnny Sexton, Leinster will be looking to get back to the big time, and they’ll be doing it wearing some natty new shirts from Canterbury… The shirts Leinster have been wearing for the last few seasons were very nice – a textbook Canterbury fusion of clean design and some modern flourishes, and on the face of this, the new shirt takes a similar approach with equally successful results.

While last season’s shirts were generally very well liked, though there were a few who felt that there wasn’t enough white involved, and even a few grumbles that the shade of royal blue used wasn’t quite right… people are a bit weird about this stuff, what can you say? Hopefully then, they’ll be a little more pleased with this year’s effort, as that blue definitely feels a bit more traditional and deep than the ever-so-slightly washed out tone of the previous design (though lighting and all sorts can play a part in this sort of thing, so judge for yourself when you see one in the flesh), and white is most certainly back on the agenda. Yes, as has been the way with some of the other Canterbury shirts we’ve seen this season, the new 360° Loop neckline is a contrasting colour to the rest of the shirt. We’ve seen it work and we’ve seen it, well, not… but this is probably the best of the bunch. The striking contrast between the white and the blue here is striking, but not clashing, and the way it extends across the shoulders really brings the white back into the Leinster colour palette, and kinda gives the shirt a bit of a retro vibe, we really like it.

The white neckline might be the most eye-grabbing feature of the top half of the new shirt, but Canterbury has saved the most noteworthy feature of the design for the bottom. Running from just below the chest sponsor are a series of 12 black chevrons that get progressively thicker as they go down the shirt. Has Canterbury just gone chevron crazy this year? Well, no, not quite. You may remember that last season’s shirt had four stripes running across the shirt, each made up of three smaller stripes. You may not have known, however, that those stripes were supposed to represent the 12 counties of Leinster, and here the idea has been replicated, but on a much more overt scale. You could also argue that the rough shape of the chevrons is kinda similar to the harp on the club crest, but let’s not labour that particular point. The alternate shirt takes the usual Leinster format of mixing white with royal blue in the same basic design, and once again, it’s turned out a shirt that’s perhaps even better looking than the home.

The 12 chevrons are much more overt here, and make this feel a touch more modern than the home design. It’s not a straight Ctrl+Shift+Swap Blue For White design, however, as the Canterbury designers have opted to not make the Loop neckline a contrasting colour here, and instead leave it white, with just a hint of blue piping around the neck to break up the line of the top of the shirt. It definitely makes the top of the shirt feel cleaner than on the home, but they both work in their own way, we think. As you can probably tell, we really like these new designs, but there was one aspect of this design that we’re really disappointed about, and that’s to do with the club crest. Rather than stitch the badges on in traditional style, this year’s England, Ireland and Bath shirts did something very different. Instead, the badges were created using a 3D injection-moulding technique. The results were unique and so damn cool up close, we were really hoping that it would become standard among Canterbury’s top echelon pro teams.

Sadly, however, this shirt has the trusty, hard-wearing but significantly less cool traditional stitched design, and while it looks totally fine and everything, we can’t help but pine for the space-age excitement of the 3D injection-moulded badges. We’re not sure whether money, time or technology has stopped Canterbury from rolling it out across their range, but we hope in the future years this disappointment will be rectified. Canterbury has rarely put a foot wrong in recent years, and these shirts epitomise the way the brand’s designers are comfortable mixing the modern with the vintage in a way that could easily create a bit of a dog’s dinner. Instead, Leinster have two shirts that are similar, yet different, and both look gorgeous in different ways. Time will tell if these new shirts will bring Leinster back to the heights of domestic and European success to which fans have become accustomed in recent years, but there’s no doubt that they’ll be spending the next two seasons in some lovely jerseys.