From togging with Best to Ravenhill glory days

Jim Stokes has been synonymous with Ulster rugby for over three decades.

From togging with Best to Ravenhill glory days
Fri, 29 Mar, 2019 - 17:07
Jim Stokes

Jim Stokes has been synonymous with Ulster rugby for over three decades.

Long-time rugby correspondent for the ‘Belfast Telegraph’, he spent another decade with the BBC before closing the laptop on his career in journalism as a freelancer with his native province’s Guinness PRO14 defeat of the Isuzu Southern Kings at Kingspan Stadium last Saturday.

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