{"id":1997,"date":"2014-09-04T16:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T15:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2014-09-04T16:26:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T15:26:25","slug":"jonathan-sexton-signs-new-irfu-contract-re-join-leinster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/jonathan-sexton-signs-new-irfu-contract-re-join-leinster\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Sexton signs new IRFU contract to re-join Leinster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sexton-leinster-rugby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sexton-leinster-rugby.jpg\" alt=\"sexton leinster rugby\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sexton-leinster-rugby.jpg 640w, https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sexton-leinster-rugby-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe IRFU and Leinster are pleased to announce that Jonathan Sexton has signed a contract with the IRFU, until the end of November 2019, which will see him re-join Leinster for the 2015\/16 season.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan made 110 appearances for Leinster between 2006 and 2013 scoring 1,015 points for the province.  While at Leinster he won three European Cups, two Pro12 titles and a Challenge Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Sexton made his Ireland debut in the 41-6 victory over Fiji in November 2009.  The 29 year old has won 45 caps for Ireland scoring 391 points.  His most recent appearance for Ireland was in the 23-17 defeat of Argentina on the 2014 Summer Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan played in all five games of Ireland&#8217;s 2014 RBS 6 Nations Championship winning campaign and toured with the 2013 series winning British &#038; Irish Lions squad starting in all three Tests against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>IRFU, CEO, Philip Browne, said, &#8220;Jonathan is one the best out-halves in world rugby and the IRFU are delighted that he will be playing his rugby in Ireland.  Irish rugby will benefit hugely from having a player of his calibre playing full-time in Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the new contract Jonathan Sexton said, &#8220;I am pleased to be re-joining Leinster, the club where I started my professional career.  I grew up playing my rugby in Leinster and always wanting to pull on the blue jersey so I am delighted to be able to return to play my club rugby in Ireland.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRFU and Leinster are pleased to announce that Jonathan Sexton has signed a contract with the IRFU, until the end of November 2019, which will see him re-join Leinster for the 2015\/16 season. Jonathan made 110 appearances for Leinster between 2006 and 2013 scoring 1,015 points for the province. While at Leinster he won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[1044,80,737,157,1042,1043],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-contract","tag-irfu","tag-jonathan","tag-new","tag-sexton","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}