Rugby League Ireland (RLI) has confirmed details of this autumn’s senior international fixtures. Ireland will compete in a round robin competition alongside Scotland and France in October and November. These will be the Irish Wolfhounds’ first full international test matches since the country’s recent promotion to full member status by both the Rugby League European […]
After a gruelling five day Touch World Cup tournament in Edinburgh, the Ireland Touch teams returned on Monday proud of their achievements. ‘’We’re absolutely exhausted, but incredibly proud to have competed for Ireland against the best in the world in our sport.’’ President of the Ireland Touch Association Michael Davies said. ‘’It was a tough […]
The final 4. Ulster Rugby League side Rabittohs played in one of the most important games in their development to date. The Opposition riddled with Ireland level players. More experienced and carrying a full strength side ran out the deserving winners. The Rabottohs were gutted at the end but did score the last try and […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Ireland squad that will take part in the first preseason camp in preparation for the Rugby World Cup in September has been named with 43 players joining the Ireland management in Kildare for the first of three scheduled camps during June and July. The squad includes the majority of players who have been involved […]
The Ireland Under-20 team (sponsored by PwC) to play South Africa has been named by Coach Mike Ruddock. Ruddock has made five personnel changes to the starting XV that lost out to England in their opening game of the IRB Junior World Championship. Tiernan O’Halloran comes in at full back with Craig Gilroy moving to […]