Event: PRO14

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Connacht sign Alex Wootton from Munster on season-long loan

Wootton will be bidding to recapture the heights of his breakthrough 2017-18 season, when he was a regular starter for Munster and finished the term as top-try-scorer on nine tries.

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Long road ahead but Peter O’Mahony’s mind on Leinster

Peter O’Mahony, GreenAware ambassador, (pictured at his home in Cork) highlights how small changes can be made in our day to day lives that make a big impact on the environment as part of the GreenAware #DoBitsHelpLots campaign. Picture: INPHO

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Peter O'Mahony on RG Snyman: 'I've never seen anything like it. He's an incredible specimen'

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No resolution in IRFU pay talks with Rugby Players Ireland

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Munster step up prep work for PRO14 derbies under strict conditions

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New three-year Leinster deal sets scene for James Lowe's Ireland bow

Leo Cullen wants winning farewells for Rob Kearney and Fergus McFadden

Leo Cullen promised to do his utmost to ensure Leinster veterans Rob Kearney and Fergus McFadden get to play out the perfect-world scenarios to bring their careers with the province to a satisfying end.

Thu, 25 Jun, 2020

De Allende to be fit for Munster's PRO14 restart; Carbery set September return date

Munster are expecting World Cup winner Damian de Allende to recover from a short-term injury in time to make his debut for the province when professional rugby returns to action in August but Joey Carbery will have to wait another month.

Mon, 22 Jun, 2020

PRO14 plan to finish season over four weekends

Rankings for European qualification next season have already been decided.

Thu, 18 Jun, 2020

Irish provinces enter three-week summer break hoping for PRO14 clarity

A Guinness PRO14 board meeting next week is hoped to provide guidance for the four Irish provinces when they are set to resume training at the end of their summer breaks.

Tue, 02 Jun, 2020

Protocols becoming clearer ahead of rugby's 'summer break'

The timing remains uncertain, despite the announcement of a target date for rugby’s return this August, but the protocols for such a resumption are at least becoming clearer.

Wed, 27 May, 2020

IRFU hoping for August return to action

Finally, after weeks of contingency planning, rugby has a target date for the safe resumption of play.

Sat, 23 May, 2020

IRFU warn of potential €20m losses amid call for State support

The IRFU had set a target of a return to competitive rugby with behind-closed-doors PRO14 derbies at the Aviva Stadium starting August 22-23.

Fri, 22 May, 2020

Damian de Allende settling into life in Limerick

Munster Rugby have confirmed that new signings Damian de Allende, RG Snyman, Matt Gallagher, and Roman Salanoa will join the province on July 1.

Tue, 19 May, 2020

PRO14 contemplating 'bio-bubbles' in effort to restart rugby

Guinness PRO14 organisers are considering isolation “bio-bubbles” in an attempt to get the competition back up and running.

Wed, 13 May, 2020

Revealed: Irish rugby chiefs plan June 1 training return

Plans are in place for Munster to return to Thomond Park, with their high performance unit at UL being used by the health authorities.

Tue, 12 May, 2020

Try-scoring law changed in response to post-pad interference

Rugby players can no longer score a try by grounding the ball against the post pads.

Tue, 12 May, 2020

PRO14 confident of a resumption sometime in 2020

Guinness PRO14 organisers remain confident that the competition can resume at some point in 2020.

Tue, 12 May, 2020

Break from action 'invaluable' for new Munster coaches — Murphy

Ireland’s lockdown could provide an upside for Munster’s new coaching team as the province prepares to return to action later this year.

Wed, 22 Apr, 2020

IRFU welcomes World Rugby’s €92m Covid-19 relief fund

Ireland, France, Italy, and Wales each lost a lucrative home game due to Six Nations postponements in March and the IRFU last month agreed pay deferrals with employees, including professional players contracted, ranging from 10 to 50% of salaries of those earning more than €25,000.

Fri, 17 Apr, 2020

Easterby hopeful Leinster can survive short-term implications of revenue loss

Guy Easterby is confident that Leinster will be able to weather the worst of the financial storm caused by the coronavirus pandemic, including the loss of two hugely lucrative home games at the Aviva Stadium this month.

Wed, 15 Apr, 2020

Leinster target mid-May return to training - for now

Leinster are targeting a return to collective training in mid-May but in the knowledge that the best-laid plans count for little right now in an environment shaped and altered by the coronavirus and attempts to contain it in Ireland and worldwide.

Tue, 14 Apr, 2020

Bernard Laporte steps in to fill void left by sport

Timing was everything for Bernard Laporte on Monday when he began ruffling the feathers of European rugby administrators

Tue, 07 Apr, 2020

Donal Lenihan: Rugby’s biggest challenge won’t be on the pitch — but in the boardroom

If a week is a long time in politics, a month has proved an eternity for professional rugby, writes Donal Lenihan.

Tue, 31 Mar, 2020

Ruby Walsh: Seeking positives and distractions from a big negative

What does the future hold? We never knew anyway but right now, instead of hope and dreams, it most definitely holds fear and worry.

Sat, 28 Mar, 2020

Rugby players in Ireland agree to pay deferral deal

The cost of cancellations and postponements in the Irish rugby calendar due to the coronavirus outbreak will now hit the pockets of those involved in the professional game

Fri, 20 Mar, 2020

PRO14 chiefs defend decision to suspend season

Guinness PRO14 chiefs last night decided to suspend the 2019-20 season indefinitely, with the cross-border league going as far as to cancel its grand final, which had been set to take place in Cardiff on June 20.

Fri, 20 Mar, 2020

PRO14 suspend season indefinitely and cancel grand final

Guinness PRO14 chiefs have decided to suspend the 2019/20 season indefinitely, the cross-border league going as far as to cancel its grand final, which was set to take place in Cardiff on June 20.

Thu, 19 Mar, 2020

How will rugby sort out the pending fixture pile-up?

There will be a time, hopefully in the not too distant future when rugby’s administrators will look back on the decision to shut down their sport due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic as the easy part, writes Simon Lewis.

Wed, 18 Mar, 2020

No training for Munster next week as IRFU considers standing down provinces

Ireland’s professional rugby players could be facing further disruption due to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak with the IRFU considering standing the provinces down next week.

Fri, 13 Mar, 2020

Rugby grapples with coronavirus shutdown

Irish rugby players, professional and amateur, will have woken this morning to a very different sporting landscape as their governing bodies called a halt to all playing activity in response to the growing threat of Covid-19 on these shores.

Fri, 13 Mar, 2020

Latest: French Rugby Federation expect Ireland match to go ahead

Ireland’s Six Nations’ trip to Paris next weekend is on course to go ahead as scheduled despite concern over the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

Fri, 06 Mar, 2020

Six Nations not the only rugby show in town

Picture the scene; Six Nations 2030, a packed stadium of 50,000 cheering fans, a large green pocket of Irish travelling fans surrounded by maroon shirts. Hold on, Maroon? It’s not that the Welsh shirts had a France shirt mixed up in the wash, it’s Georgia.

Thu, 05 Mar, 2020

Coronavirus hits Munster and Connacht games in Italy

The Guinness PRO14 fixtures were postponed to "provide some degree of certainty in an evolving situation."

Thu, 05 Mar, 2020

Van Graan happy as Coombes accelerates Munster’s West Cork rally

There’s no keeping West Cork rugby players out of the news these days.

Mon, 02 Mar, 2020

Our backs are against the wall, says Friend

Andy Friend says Connacht’s PRO14 play-off hopes are on a knife-edge and only a victory in South Africa will suffice.

Sat, 29 Feb, 2020

Sam Davies the hero for Dragons in scrappy clash with Cheetahs

Sam Davies booted a penalty with the last kick of the game as the Dragons beat the Cheetahs 13-10 in a scrappy Guinness PRO14 clash at Rodney Parade.

Sat, 29 Feb, 2020

Munster play up Scarlets’ talents

The Munster backroom team, and players, have been highlighting the talents of Scarlets, prior to this evening’s Guinness PRO14 opposition at Thomond Park (5pm).

Sat, 29 Feb, 2020

Baird and Kearney hat-tricks see Leinster break Munster's PRO14 winning record

A global pandemic may be the only thing that can stop Leinster this season, if Friday night’s nine-try win over Glasgow at the RDS is anything to go by.

Fri, 28 Feb, 2020

Potential CVC windfall will ‘futureproof’ the provinces

Irish rugby will not go on an overseas spending spree for galacticos when the IRFU gets its cash windfall from CVC Capital Partners, Munster CEO Ian Flanagan has warned.

Wed, 26 Feb, 2020

Ferreira hopes Carbery injury timeline remains same despite second surgery

It was a miserable day of injury news for Cian Healy and Joey Carbery, yesterday, as the duo suffered set-backs.

Wed, 26 Feb, 2020

IRFU seek meeting as minister says Italy clash can’t be played amid coronavirus fears

There’s never a good time to have a major disruption to fixtures involving a few countries, but one coming in a Rugby World Cup season is going to exacerbate the situation, with Ireland’s Six Nations clash with Italy on Saturday week set to be the first of many games impacted.

Wed, 26 Feb, 2020