Dublin businessman John Hussey created a piece of sporting history when he became the first member from St. Mary’s College RFC (founded 111 years ago) to be enrolled as the 124th President of the Irish Rugby Football Union, at the Union’s annual Council Meeting in the Aviva Stadium, today, July 22nd. He assumes the highest […]
The Irish Rugby Football Union are pleased to announce that Ireland Head Coach Declan Kidney and his assistant coaches Gert Smal, Les Kiss and Mark Tainton have all agreed new contract extensions. The current coaching team had been contracted up to the conclusion of the World Cup in October, but the decision of all four […]
Recently we sent you an invitation to participate in our supporters survey, to find out the views of those who have previously been to Ireland international rugby matches as well as people who might be interested in attending internationals in the future. If you have participated already, thank you for your time and opinions, we […]
The Ireland squad converged in Kildare this evening for the first of the three planned preseason camps as part of preparations for the Rugby World Cup in September. Ireland Coach Declan Kidney recently announced a 43 man panel that would take part in this first camp which included four uncapped players in Conor Murray, Felix […]
Irish rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll spoke candidly about his hopes of making it to the Rugby World Cup semi finals on Wednesday night, when he addressed a large crowd at the New York Athletic Club. A mutual friend spotted the interview on an American website when Brian was visiting New York – To read the […]
The Ireland Under-20 team (Sponsored by PwC) to face Wales in their final game of the IRB Junior World Championship has been named. Cocah, Mike Ruddock has made a number of changes to team including the addition of Jonathan Murphy in the replacments who has been called into the squad to replace injured Niall Annett. […]
The Ireland Under-20 team (sponsored by PwC) to face South Africa in the Junior World Championship has been named. This match forms part of the 5th – 8th place play-off at the championship with the final placing to be decided by the last game on Sunday the 26th June. Under-20’s coach Mike Ruddock has made […]