Connacht Rugby | Clubs, Schools & Lifestyle
Connacht 7’s Head Coach Conor McPhillips has announced a 12-man squad for this weekend’s Limerick World Club 7 tournament in Thomond Park. The squad features a mixture of senior, academy and sub-academy players while Ireland Men’s sevens’ player Shane Layden, who was part of the team to recently qualify for the World Rugby Olympic Repechage […]
Ireland Head Coach Joe Schmidt Helps Launch IRFU Charitable Trust’s Corporate Patron Scheme Ireland Head Coach was on hand at the Aviva Stadium today (Friday 29th May, 2015) to lend his support to the IRFU Charitable Trust who announced details of a new Corporate Patron membership scheme. The IRFU Charitable Trust Corporate Patron scheme is […]
Brett Wilkinson has been appointed the new Buccaneers RFC head coach. A former Connacht, and Ireland Wolfhounds player the South African native played 183 times for Connacht before retiring last year due to medical advice following a neck-injury. He played five times for the Wolfhounds and represented Ireland in a non-cap match against the Barbarians. […]
Ireland Women’s Team to face England Women The Ireland Women’s team to play England Women in the third round of the RBS Women’s 6 Nations has been named. Coach, Tom Tierney has made a single change to the team that lost out 5-10 to their French counterparts in the last outing of the tournament a […]
Connacht Women’s coach Luke O’Donnell discusses the 5 ts: Can Rugby Teach You About Customer Service? Luke is one of The Flying Bin in-house customer centre superheroes. So what rugby and customer service have in common. Rugby demands many things, some of which prove costly (teeth, crooked noses and fancy boots for example), but discipline […]
Unrelenting quest for perfection puts Ireland boss in league of his own – with Michael Cheika second When Joe Schmidt took over as coach of the national side, Ireland were in ninth position in the IRB world rankings. A precarious position – Ireland were out of the top eight seeded teams. Ireland would have gone […]
Nigel Carolan appointed Ireland U20’s Head Coach Connacht Rugby’s Nigel Carolan has been appointed as Ireland U20 Head Coach following Mike Ruddock’s decision to step down from the role. Nigel, who has been the Connacht Academy Manager since 2004, will retain his role at Connacht while assuming the Head Coach role with the PwC Ireland […]
Connacht Head Coach Pat Lam has made five changes to his starting XV from the team that defeated Leinster in the last round of the GUINNESS PRO12. In his first appearance of the season, Connacht and the league’s highest capped player Michael Swift has replaced Quinn Roux in the second row for tomorrow’s encounter with […]
