The Irish Rugby Football Union and Ulster Rugby announced today that centre Paddy Wallace and prop Tom Court have each agreed new contracts to remain playing in Ireland. Paddy Wallace has signed a one year deal which will see him contracted to the IRFU and Ulster Rugby until June 2013 while Tom Court has...
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The Irish Rugby Football Union and Ulster Bank have today announced a new partnership that will see Ulster Bank become the Official Community Rugby Partner to the IRFU, which includes title sponsorship of the All Ireland League and the Irish Club International team until 2014. The announcement also introduces a new club volunteer initiative,...
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The Irish Rugby Football Union has announced the signing of another international contract with Cian Healy signing a new deal that will seem him continue to play in Ireland for another two seasons up to 2013. The IRFU are currently in the process of contracting Ireland based players and Healy’s new contract comes on...
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The Irish Rugby Football Union today announced 94 selected players for the Ireland U18 Club, U18 School and U19 National Talent Squads for the season. The National Talent Squads are part of the IRFU’s High Performance pathway and consist of underage players who have been identified at this point in their development for progression...
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The Irish Rugby Football Union has announced the signing of another international player with the news that Ronan O’Gara has committed to a new Ireland international contract that will see him playing in Ireland for a further two seasons up to 2013. Following the recent announcement of Donncha O’Callaghan signing a new contract, O’Gara’s...
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In light of reduced demand for tickets across matches in the upcoming Guinness Series, the Irish Rugby Football Union has acknowledge that it made an error in its ticketing strategy and is giving a commitment that it will review its policy at the conclusion of the Guinness series. At a meeting of the IRFU...
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The Irish Rugby Football Union has announced that the Ireland Team Strength and Conditioning Coach Paul Pook has decided to step down from the position due to personal reasons. The Welsh native joined the Ireland coaching staff in 2008 with a renowned CV in the area of sports science and specifically rugby fitness having...
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Irish International Luke Fitzgerald was on hand today to launch the Irish Rugby Football Union Play Rugby programme that is intended to target increasing participation levels in primary schools across Ireland. The Play Rugby programme contains classroom plans and teaching aids to assist teachers, coaches and parents involved in rugby at mini and primary...
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The Irish Rugby Football Union today confirmed that Ireland will play the Barbarians for The MasterCard Trophy at Thomond Park, Limerick on Friday 4th June 2010 – Kick off 7.45pm. This match will form part of Ireland’s 2010 Southern Hemisphere tour preparations and the Barbarians’ Summer Tour, with a fixture against England the week...
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To mark the opening of the Aviva Stadium, the Irish Rugby Football Union today confirmed that the first game to be played in 2010 will be an historic rugby match between two composite provincial teams pitting a Leinster/Ulster team against a Munster/Connacht selection on Saturday, 7 August. Leinster and Ulster were the first representative...
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