UL research aims to make rugby safer for amateurs

In a bid to make rugby safer for the country’s 180,000 amateur players, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has teamed up with University of Limerick (UL) in a research partnership that will focus on injury monitoring and prevention.

The six-year long collaboration is designed to measure the incidence, nature and severity of injury in the amateur game, as well as monitoring injury trends in an effort to gain insight into the possible causes.

Ultimately, the IRFU hopes the research findings will help it plan measures to prevent injury and prioritise resource allocation towards injury prevention.