Match Report

When a fxiture has been played, category changes from Fixture to Match Report.

Diamond Ducks and the Dark Arts

First, the good news. Both teams turned up for the game. The reverse game had been arranged earlier in the summer between the Archives and Wicklow, for which the latter […]

The Handbags: an Ashes test

For a while it looked as though fire might stop play in the first of the Archives’ two losses in this year’s Handbags. However, in the end it was Merrion’s […]

Leinster Leaders

On a lovely evening in the picturesque setting of the St Columba’s and after a good win the week before, The Archives (notwithstanding a somewhat unfamiliar line-up) felt confident against […]

The last time there was this much Archive-on-Archive action was when we played Ashford in 2021. But this time the opposition was the Law Library or ‘Bar’ XI. Such has […]

In the end, Captain Dunphy had all the miracle workers he needed. We were in Kildare. St Brigid’s old stomping ground. It would have been only marginally less surprising to […]

After the drama and excitement of last season’s two epic battles between the Archives and Malahide, this was a match distinguished by three Archive’s debutants. This was the Archives first […]