 Many of the first team are now home grown players from Donegal and with the rapidly expanding Youth and Mini section this trend will continue to fill the senior teams.Letterkenny won the Gordon West cup in 2011 for the first time in their history after their fifth time in the final

Letterkenny Rugby Club hosted an Ulster Rugby open training day in July 2018, with Irish captain Rory Best among those present, and also Jacob Stockdale, Iain Henderson and Stuart McCloskey .Letterkenny has been at the forefront of developing an outlet for rugby in the North West over the last two decades.