Dave Ewers becomes the first-ever to score a try in Breffni Park.
Declan Bogue Reports from Kingspan Breffni MIDWEEK estimates had the crowd somewhere around 5,000. As the weekend approached, that number grew and around 7,000 eventually were inside Kingspan Breffni Park for the visit of Glasgow Warriors to play Ulster Rugby.
Within the team, it opened up a few conversations, he said. But then, he maintains the group culture is one of a healthy intellectual curiosity.“In the group, we’ve covered Ulster’s history and the history of Northern Ireland in the last three or four years that I’ve been here,” he said. Advertisement He nods to his right when he says Zimbabwe, because sitting beside him is the Zimbabwean-born front-rower, Dave Ewers. There, his family were teachers and farmers in Mutare. But they were found themselves in the way of the Fast-Track Land Reform campaign of Robert Mugabe in the early ‘00s.
“As Dan said, we have looked into the history of the province and you can see the support for us here, it was special. “To make a debut, away from home but at home, it was nice.” “Actually, the players were quite excited about it. They were going somewhere different and there were a lot of questions during the week, about the pitch, and I had to explain that the pitch was nearly double the size,” he laughs.
Up in front of the press box was Cavan GAA President, Tom Lynch. In the ‘60s, he was an athletic midfielder and won four Ulster senior football Championships.
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