Letterkenny RFC’s Youth Boys were on the road on Saturday 7 November. The U18s scored five tries in a 35–10 win at Coleraine, while the U16s lost 7–0 in a closely contested derby at Strabane.

U18s | Coleraine 10–35 Letterkenny

Letterkenny’s U18s extended their unbeaten run and held on to top spot in Division 1 with a strong second-half display at Coleraine.

The visitors crossed for their opening try inside five minutes, but Coleraine responded with a sustained spell of pressure. Letterkenny defended well to limit the hosts to a penalty and went back up the pitch to score their second try. Handling errors and lapses in discipline then gave Coleraine an opening, and the hosts crossed for a try of their own to leave Letterkenny just 14–10 ahead at half-time.

Letterkenny were sharper after the break. They cut out the handling errors, improved their discipline and ran in three more tries without conceding. Jonathan Russell scored twice, with Carl Keane-Hagemayer, Ben Ramsey and Ronan McFadden also crossing. Matthew Farrell converted all five tries to complete the 35–10 win.

U16s | Strabane 7–0 Letterkenny

Letterkenny’s U16s suffered their second defeat of the season in a physical derby at Strabane. The hosts started strongly and scored the only try of the match after 10 minutes, adding the conversion to go 7–0 ahead.

Letterkenny grew into the game and put together some good attacking passages, coming close to a try of their own before half-time. Both defences held firm in a tighter second half, and the score remained 7–0.

Play was stopped with 12 minutes remaining after Letterkenny’s Bobby Johnston suffered a serious injury. The match could not resume and, with more than 40 minutes played, the result was awarded to Strabane.

Everyone at Letterkenny RFC wishes Bobby a speedy recovery. The club sincerely thanks Strabane RFC for their assistance in looking after him.

Thank you to O’Gorman Cunningham LLP for their continued support of Letterkenny RFC Youth Boys rugby.