Pic Credit: Getty An all-Ireland bid to stage the 2023 Rugby World Cup is set to be officially unveiled. Officials from the IRFU will tomorrow join representatives from the Northern Ireland Executive and Irish government to outline their ambition to jointly host the sport’s showpiece event. Both administrations have been engaged in a preliminary assessment […]
THE KIERAN SHANNON INTERVIEW The great Jack Kyle passed yesterday, aged 88, but what a full life he lived and he knew it. “You should look on the past with gratitude, the present with enthusiasm and try to look on the future with confidence,” he’d once been told — that’s how he was still thinking […]
Joe Schmidt’s Ireland played safe, smart rugby in dispatching South Africa on Saturday and made a mockery of their underdog status with the bookmakers. The 29-15 scoreline was comprehensive; only once have Ireland bettered that margin of victory against a Springbok side (32-15 in November 2006). The Irish half-backs managed the game beautifully, no better […]
Do you have a hearing loss, Deaf and currently playing rugby or want to learn how to play? Then we need you!! This amazing intiative comes hot on the heels of several other countries forming their own deaf and hard of hearing teams. Wales deaf, England deaf, New Zealand deaf, Australia deaf, and Japan deaf. […]
The international season is upon us and the November issue of ‘In Touch’ is out now – packed full of features about Irish Rugby. There is an in-depth interview with rising star Robbie Henshaw and a match-by-match preview of the GUINNESS Series games against South Africa, Georgia and Australia. Former Ireland captain and current forwards […]
Message from Philip Browne, IRFU CEO Young people are the lifeblood of any sport and Irish Rugby is no different to other sports in this regard. We want to welcome young people into our clubs and schools so that they can enjoy our great game. It goes without saying that parents are entitled to know […]
World Cup Trio, Baxter, Miller and Murphy Sign up to Irish Women’s Sevens Programme The Irish Rugby Football Union today announced that 19 players are now centrally contracted players with the Ireland Women’s Sevens High Performance Programme. The squad includes three of Ireland Women’s Rugby World Cup stars, wingers Ashleigh Baxter and Alison Miller and […]
Whatever you think of Sale’s Danny Cipriani and his Barclays Premier League lifestyle he can run a backline Well, this is the season when the Irish provinces get theirs. They apparently play in a Mickey Mouse League and they play their second teams in 75pc of games, only rolling their superstars out when they play […]