Munster Rugby News magazine, Vol 7 No 3, March 1999: Bruff take the Munster Junior Challenge Cup for a second time; league titles for Thomond, Nenagh Ormond and Newcastle West

Munster Rugby News, Volume 7 No. 3, March 1999 (cover price £2.00), the monthly magazine of Munster club and schools rugby, edited by Paul Collins and published by PSC Publishing, Limerick, with Heineken – 'proud sponsors of Irish rugby'. Cover: a Bruff celebration at Thomond Park after the club's Heineken Munster Junior Clubs Challenge Cup final win over Castleisland, with the George O'Mahony Memorial Trophy, and the cover lines 'Free Heineken rugby shirt competition', 'Bruff take Challenge Cup for second time', 'Fact file on Rosemary Brown' and 'League titles for Thomond, Nenagh & Newcastle West'. The editorial salutes a very successful month for four clubs: Bruff, the first club to win the Munster Junior Clubs Challenge Cup for the second season in a row, at Thomond Park on Sunday 7 February; Thomond, Munster League Division One winners and so in line to qualify for the All-Ireland League; Nenagh Ormond, crowned Division Two champions; and Newcastle West, Division Three winners and bringing the club its first ever Munster trophy since its foundation in 1924. Contents: Decline in Numbers Playing Rugby; South Munster News (page 4); Rugby in Brief and Referees (5–6); Rugby Journal (8–9); Bruff Make History (10–11); Down Memory Lane (12–14); Thomond on Course for AIL Qualification (16–19); First Munster Title for Newcastle West (20–21); Nenagh Are Division Two Champions (22–23); Schools Rugby (24–25); Fact File on Rosemary Brown (26–27); The Rugby Game (28); and League Tables (29), with the final tables of the Munster League divisions, the Heineken Munster Junior Qualifying League and the South Munster Under-20 League. 32 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, stapled. THEMES: Munster junior rugby, Munster Junior Clubs Challenge Cup, Munster League 1999, Bruff RFC, Thomond RFC, Nenagh Ormond, Newcastle West, Irish rugby magazines.

Author: Paul Collins (ed.)

Publisher: PSC Publishing

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good