Former All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has urged his former employers to be strong in their negotiations over the future of Super Rugby and that New Zealand Rugby ...
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Greg Bateman, Kyle Eastmond, and Telusa Veainu have also departed.
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Domestic club rugby in Ireland will have a new, one-off look for the 2020-21 season with the IRFU unveiling a much-modified format for the resumption of the amateur ...
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This season’s Heineken Champions Cup final has been moved away from the planned host city of Marseille with the French Mediterranean port now set to stage ...
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Leinster are optimistic James Lowe will be available for their first fixture since the pandemic and shutdown when they face Munster next month.
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Leinster were unbeaten this season, through 20 league and European Cup games, before the pandemic struck and yet Felipe Contepomi says the province's players couldn't ...
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Ben O'Donnell, nicknamed 'BOD', was named Australian Sevens Player of the Year in 2018 and became the first Australian to be nominated for World Sevens Player of ...
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Six Nations Rugby has reiterated its position regarding the sale of a minority stake in the championship to CVC Capital Partners by saying there is no agreement ...
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Leinster wing Barry Daly has called time on his professional rugby career in order to pursue a Master's degree in the United States.
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Six Nations organisers have refused to substantiate the statements made by French Federation president Bernard Laporte that the sale of a stake in the championship ...
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The English union has suffered significant financial pain because of the Covid-19 outbreak.
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The IRFU is set for a badly needed €70m cash boost after private equity company CVC closed in last night on a 14.5% investment stake in the Six Nations.
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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 ...
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Queensland Reds fly-half James O'Connor kicked a late penalty to secure a 32-26 win and snap a seven-year losing streak to the New South Wales Waratahs as professional ...
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The Australian moved to Super League at the start of the year after he was sacked by Rugby Australia for posting homophobic comments on social media.
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With a season still to complete and a new campaign to follow straight after, a long road lies ahead for Ireland’s rugby players. Yet the first game back is ...
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World Rugby’s leading doctor, Éanna Falvey has reiterated the need for temporary changes in the way the sport is played in order to minimise the risk ...
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Peter O'Mahony has seen the impact overseas signings can have on Irish provinces, transforming them from contenders to champions and the Munster captain thinks the ...
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IRFU talks with Rugby Players Ireland over proposed player wage cuts have been suspended for the day without resolution.
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“I'd played a huge amount of games in the space of four or five years and it was taking its toll.”
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Johann van Graan has praised his Munster players for embracing the “opportunity” of a return to rugby under unique circumstances following the Covid-19 ...
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The Munster squad stepped up preparations on Monday for the return of the Guinness PRO14 campaign in August as they trained for the first time in groups of up to ...
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Lowe qualifies for Ireland under the old three-year residency rule as of this November.
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Having only one Limerick man in the current Munster academy? That is not a cause for concern but a positive sign of a successful, province-wide rugby development ...
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HE may be talking over the phone, 1 500km removed from home, but it quickly becomes clear that Dave O’Callaghan has a spring in his step.
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Nenagh RFC's Seán McCullough was tonight elected as the new President of the Munster Branch of the IRFU.
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The IRFU has implored amateur players and coaches to proceed gradually on their return to rugby in light of high injury rates experienced in other sports that have ...
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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 ...
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Heineken Champions Cup organisers EPCR are reviewing the feasibility of staging its finals in Marseille in October having announced new dates for the knockout stages ...
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The return to Thomond Park cannot come quick enough for Munster chief executive Ian Flanagan and nor can the selling of the famous stadium’s naming rights.
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Ian Flanagan does not believe Munster Rugby will be at any more of a disadvantage in the post-pandemic landscape than its rivals but it is clear to the chief executive ...
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Munster Rugby CEO Ian Flanagan lauded reviews into the process of dealing with the James Cronin case as “very thorough”.
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Supporters eager for a glimpse of World Cup winners RG Snyman and Damian de Allende in Munster training gear will have to be patient a little longer.
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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 ...
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Munster and Leinster have been given the greenlight to return to training on Monday by IRFU medics.
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The IRFU has welcomed the announcement from government on Friday evening which will see all sports return on June 29, significantly earlier than originally planned ...
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The governing body feels many fans do not understand the song’s full history.
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Rankings for European qualification next season have already been decided.
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The IRFU's chief medical officer is anticipating a “small number of Covid-19 cases” among the four provincial professional squads, their coaches, and ...
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The IRFU is to begin Covid-19 testing for Munster and Leinster players and members of their support staff ahead of their planned return to training in Limerick and ...
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Rugby chiefs discussed proposed landmark changes to the sport’s global calendar with a conference call between stakeholders yesterday.
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Rugby Players Ireland says it is "very disappointed" after a newspaper reported that the IRFU is seeking a 20% pay cut for the four provincial sides.
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Time in lockdown has solidified Conor Murray's ambitions to end his career on a high and the Munster scrum-half believes the province has now got all the ingredients ...
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