They have had many successes down through the years, but a real highlight was the 1962/63 season when they swept the boards — they won the Connacht Minor League and Minor Cup, the Connacht Junior League and Junior Cup, the Connacht Senior League and Senior Cup, the OLBC Sevens and the Blake Sevens.

One of those, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Captained Ireland to a Triple Crown in 1982, and subsequently the 1983 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand.

[4] Their Under-20 team plays in the Irish Universities Conroy Cup[5] competing against UCC, UCD, QUB, TCD, DU, UL & Maynooth.

[6] They have also set up a Rugby Youth Academy in an attempt to help strengthen the club.

In 2013/2014 and again in 2014/2015 UG won the Irish Universities Rugby Union Kay Bowen Intervarsity Cup.