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Irish Independent
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Dundalk IT Future Stars of Rugby Awards celebrate the next generation of players
The Future Stars were selected following a number of blitz days for boys and girls tiered into divisions, and another blitz day for development players. The teams were selected and played each other on the appointed blitz day. From that, coaches picked 45 players, with three for each position. They moved forward to be voted for one of the 15 awards. Part of the voting process included an online system where people could vote for their favourite player in each position, for both boys and girls, through The Argus and Drogheda Independent newspapers. The other part of the selection process included a voting panel of five committee members. On the night of the Awards, instead of a cup or a medal, each player was presented with a Future Star jersey. 2025 Dundalk Institute of Technology Future Stars of Rugby Awards Boys winners: Ben Mulvaney – Prop – Ardgillan CC & Balbriggan RF; Damien Lynch – Hooker – De La Salle, Dundalk & Dundalk RFC; Anthony Ukagwu – Prop – St Mary's Diocesan School & Boyne RFC; Matthew Horkan – Second row- Drogheda Grammar – Boyne RFC; Ruairi O'Neill – Second row – St Oliver's CC & Boyne RFC; Andrew McGovern – Flanker – O Carolan College & Navan RFC; Luke Kennedy – Flanker – St Patrick's, Navan & Navan RFC; Ben O'Hare – Number eight – St Mary's, Dundalk & Carlingford RFC; Mark Donohoe – Scrum-half – De La Salle, Dundalk & Dundalk RFC; Mahon Hall – Out-half – St Mary's Diocesan School & Boyne RFC; Cormac Nugent – Wing – St Patrick's, Navan; Darragh McFadden – Centre – Ardgillan CC & Balbriggan RFC Harley Fagan-Harold – Centre – Ardgillan CC & Balbriggan RFC; Andrew McArdle – Wing – Bush Post Primary – Dundalk RFC; Harry Waters – Full-back – Ratoath College & Ratoath/Navan. Girls winners: Lily Byrne – Prop – Skerries CC & Skerries/Balbriggan; Ava McKeown – Hooker – Ardee CS & Dundalk RFC; Erin Roe – Prop – St Vincent's, Dundalk & Dundalk RFC; Tylo Connoway – Second row – Ardee CS & Ardee RFC; Chloe Boyle – Second row – Bush Post Primary & Carlingford RFC; Breanna McArdle – Flanker – St Joseph's HS, Crossmaglen & Dundalk RFC; Katie Ann Bobbett – Flanker – Ashbourne CS & Ashbourne RFC; Maeve O'Dwyer – Number eight – Eureka & Virginia RFC; Aoibhinn Reilly – scrum-half – Bush Post Primary & Dundalk RFC; Sophie Malone – Out-half – Dundalk Grammar & Dundalk RFC; Lisa Stulberga – Wing – Ardgillan CC; Molly Whately – Centre – St Vincent's, Dundalk & Dundalk RFC; Kate O'Molloy – Centre – Dundalk Grammar & Dundalk RFC; Katie McDonald – Wing – Bush Post Primary & Dundalk RFC; Molly Egan – Full-back – St Joseph's Mercy, Navan & Navan RFC.
Fox News
19-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
WWE stars share advice for new crop of female talent preparing to take stage at NXT Stand & Deliver
LAS VEGAS – Lyra Valkyria is a little more than a year removed from starring in NXT's feature show Stand & Deliver, which takes place during WrestleMania weekend. She now finds herself as a champion with matches in Las Vegas. Valkyria and Bayley will look to win the WWE women's tag team championship against Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodrigez on Sunday. With a win, Valkyria could become a double champion. She already holds the women's intercontinental championship. She offered some advice to the women of NXT who will compete in matches at this year's Stand & Deliver and have hopes of making the WrestleMania 42 card in New Orleans next year. "Give everything you have every single time you step in the ring," Valkyria told Fox News Digital. "I know the Stand & Deliver girls have a big tag match with a shot at the tag championships. We have Tatum Paxley in one corner. So, if I become a double champion I might be in the ring against her." Valkyria and Paxley bonded during their NXT days, but Paxley has since found a new partner in Gigi Dolin. The two will try to earn a shot at the WWE women's world tag team championship by coming out as the victors in a four-way tag match, which will occur on the Stand & Deliver kickoff show. Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade, Meta-Four's Lash Legend and Jakara Jackson and Jacy Jayne and Fallon Henley are also in the match. Dakota Kai was a two-time NXT tag team champion when she performed for the brand and was named the 2019 Future Star of NXT. She's seen time on the main roster, becoming a two-time WWE women's tag team champion with Iyo Sky. Kai knows what it takes to perform at Stand & Deliver. "The women's division is so stacked right now in NXT. I think it's just, "Don't forget why you do this — for the love of it,'" Kai told Fox News Digital. "There's going to be a lot of ups and downs and things like that. It's just how it is. "But as long as you remember why you do it — the love for it — that will get you through anything." Stand & Deliver begins Saturday at 1 p.m. ET at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
