It may have escaped many people’s notice that, as word emerged yesterday of Jamie Heaslip’s decision to retire from the game he had graced at the highest level for a decade, the Scarlets were announcing the end of another rugby career.

Nestled at the end of the second paragraph of the IRFU’s official statement on Jamie Heaslip’s retirement was the fact that the Leinster No 8 had appeared 95 times for his country and played the full 80 minutes for 72 of them.

Latest: Ireland rugby star Jamie Heaslip has retired from rugby on medical advice.

Jamie Heaslip was once renowned as the rugby player who could not be broken.

Leinster head coach Leo Cullen says Jamie Heaslip may require a second operation on his ongoing back issues.

"It's an exciting group for us"

Accumulated profits at the firm owned by former Irish rugby captain Jamie Heaslip more than doubled to €135,235 last year.

A certain handsome rugby star made one rugby fan's dream come true on the Late Late Toy Show.

Accumulated profits at the firm owned by former Irish rugby captain Jamie Heaslip last year slipped below the €70,000 mark.

Ireland number eight Jamie Heaslip was not surprised by Scotland's fighting spirit in their RBS 6 Nations finale, but was delighted the hosts rounded off their injury-hit title defence with a victory.

The Six Nations league table may not reflect his views, but Jamie Heaslip believes Ireland weren’t far off the pace in this year’s championship.

Leinster announced today that Isa Nacewa is to take over the role of club captain on a permanent basis, having taken led the team on an interim basis during the Rugby World Cup.

“We’re delighted to come out with a win, but we’ve got a lot to work on.”

"To have this 90,000 seater stadium filled out with Irish people has been a humbling experience."

Jamie Heaslip was asked yesterday about the possible influence of the referee on today’s opening World Cup match between Ireland and Canada, but said it is the job of the players to keep his role to a minimum.

When the Barbarians come to town, there is no promised script. That is what makes this invitational team so attractive in the rugby world.

Accumulated profits at the firm owned by former Irish rugby captain, Jamie Heaslip last year topped €70,000.

NEVER let it be said that Kathryn Thomas isn’t a stranger to hard work.

As Leinster get set for a mammoth test this weekend, coach Matt O’Connor says that talk on his future has not filtered into his side.

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Leinster’s Jamie Heaslip may be waking up with a sore head this morning, but his clear-headed, try-saving tackle helped seal Ireland’s nerve jangling

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Jamie Heaslip has always stood as the most useful, and accurate, of barometers on those all-too-frequent occasions in the past when Luke Fitzgerald’s staccato Ireland career has been a topic of interest.

Joe Schmidt will have a fully fit squad to choose from when he names his team to face Scotland this Thursday for Ireland’s do-or-die trip to Scotland in the RBS Six Nations.

Maybe Jamie Heaslip really is invincible after all. Having missed just one RBS 6 Nations game in seven seasons, the absence of Ireland’s mainstay at No.8 from two of the first three games of this 2015 campaign suggested the formerly unbreakable forward was suddenly human after all.

Wales assistant coach Rob Howley has hailed fit-again Ireland No.8 Jamie Heaslip as "an exceptional ball-carrier" ahead of his Test match return in tomorrow’s RBS 6 Nations showdown at the Millennium Stadium.

“I didn’t know if it was a knee or a shoulder or whatever. I tried to get on with it but it stiffened up and I had to come off.”

Pascal Pape’s RBS 6 Nations career has ended in acrimony after the France lock lost his appeal against a 10-week ban for kneeing Ireland’s Jamie Heaslip in the back.

Ireland coach Joe Schmidt has said that he hopes to have Jamie Heaslip available to them again for the Six Nations trip to Wales next month.

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Leinster's Jamie Heaslip has signed a new three-year deal with the IRFU which keeps him with the Blues until June 2017.