January 22nd, 2013 
Rob 
Railway Union are on the rise in Leinster Rugby’s Junior Leagues. On Sunday they secured the Division 2b title with a hard fought one point win away to Edenderry making amens for their only league loss at home to the Offaly men earlier this season.
The side coached by Keith Sothern and Jack Hanratty delivered in fine style this season starting with four wins to build a lead and holding off a challenge from strong sides in North Kildare and Edenderry as well as overcoming a promising Arklow side.
The high point for the Park Avenue based side in Leinster Junior rugby came in 1997 when they won promotion to the top flight, they lasted there for two seasons before dropping down to the second tier again and eventually down through the leagues.
They’ll be back in the third tier next season and are looking up from there with a strong senior structure and a strong under 21 side.
Elsewhere on Sunday, Guinness got back to winning ways with a home win over an improved Swords.
Results
Edenderry 10, Railway Union 11 (write a Knocket)
Guinness 24, Swords 7 (write a Knocket)
The Table
| P | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | D | B | D | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Railway Union | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 322 | 127 | 195 | 5 | 0 | 45 |
| 2 | North Kildare | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 209 | 125 | 84 | 7 | 0 | 33 |
| 3 | Edenderry | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 214 | 120 | 94 | 5 | 0 | 31 |
| 4 | Arklow | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 143 | 118 | 25 | 5 | -2 | 23 |
| 5 | Guinness | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 145 | 120 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 23 |
| 6 | Athy | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 106 | 167 | -61 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| 7 | Swords | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 53 | 415 | -362 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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I hate to say this. but I told you so. Congrats to Keith & Jack and I fancy if they’re not snapped up by somebody, they can take RU a lot further. Well done boys!
In fairness Keith and Jack have done a great job along with John Cronin and all the coaches at the club.
We were pretty lucky at times on Sunday as the ‘derry outhalf narrowly missed some drop goal attempts to in it for Edenderry.
Congrats to all at Railway. I visited there a couple of times and I must say I was impressed with their young backroom team. Seems to have worked very well for them.
Best team won, fair play. This league was a good standard. Tough encounters all round.
Would like to see NK finish second, on balance the next best side in the comp, followed by arklow, who are a sound bunch of lads.
game between derry and railway was very tight . couple of poor decisions by the referee. railway used maul to good effect but derry played the better rugby especially in the second half.great game to watch. 2nd position in league is still open.
As long as railway have the referee’s assessor as a touch-judge they’ll get those decissions
Francis Roche, a referee’s assessor ? Eh I dont think so….
My apologies, I just noticed. I obviously misread this and it actually means the Edenderry touch was a referree’s asessor. Shucks. Should have figured that one out….