Vodafone Women’s Rugby Inter Pro’s Confirmed for Three August Saturday’s
The IRFU has confirmed the fixtures for the 2023 Vodafone Women’s Interprovincial Championship, which will take place this August and September as part of a new season plan designed to provide our leading players with consistent access to high-level game time. The four-Round series gets underway on Saturday, 12th August, as defending champions Munster get their 2023 campaign underway against …
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Thirty-Two English Rugby Senior Women Will Receive New Three-Year Contracts
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the Rugby Players Association (RPA) released the names of 32 English senior women players that will receive new three-year contracts – an increase from the 30 contracts offered than last season. The contracts were announced in early June and will span over three seasons up to 2026. They will also cover the 2025 Rugby …
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IRFU Announce The Launch Of First Women’s Under-20s Team
The IRFU has announced the launch of a programme for the Women’s Under-20s category. This programme will mark the first occasion in which the IRFU will field an Under-20s Women’s team. Forty-four players have taken part in a screening programme, to identify who will be selected for the squad, which is due to be announced next Wednesday. A squad of …
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Ireland Will Head To Dubai For The World XV Tournament In November
World Rugby has officially announced that the upcoming Tier 3 matches of the newly established WXV competition will be held in Dubai this November. Ireland is set to face off against Fiji, Kazakhstan, Kenya, and the winner of the play-off between Brazil and Colombia, which is scheduled to take place next month as part of the tournament. The renowned Sevens …
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Fiji Rugby Union apologises for underpaying female players
Fijiana captain Sereima Leweniqila last week called out the Fiji Rugby Union on social media for failing to pay players for what they were owed for recent matches against Australia and in the Oceania Women’s Rugby Championship. After an initial FRU statement that they had paid the players correctly, FRU Trustees Board interim chairman Peter Mazey apologised to the team …
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Former England player Eniola Aluko honoured with MBE for services to football and charity
Former England WNT player Eniola Aluko has been made an MBE in King Charles’ first Birthday Honours List. One of the all-time top goalscorers in the WSL, the 36-year-old won three league titles with Chelsea between 2012 and 2018. She has also played in three World Cups, three European Championships, and an Olympic games. Since her retirement in 2019 she …
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Bronze For Ireland 7s At European Sevens Opener In Algarve
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Jessica Gardiner
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June 12, 2023
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Algarve Rugby 7s, Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe, Beibhinn Parsons, Clare Gorman, Erin King, international rugby, Ireland Rugby 7s, Ireland Women's Rugby, Kate Farrell McCabe, Lucy Mulhall
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Ireland Women’s 7s team bagged a bronze medal finish at the Rugby Europe Sevens Championship Series (Leg 1) Algarve Sevens in Portugal this past weekend. After back-to-back victories on Friday over Sweden and Germany, a draw on Saturday (June 10) with Spain followed by a quarter-final win over Czechia, Ireland 7s topped their pool and progressed to the semi-finals to …
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Ireland progress to semi-finals in Algarve
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Grace Fisher
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June 10, 2023
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Rugby
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Algarve Rugby 7s, Allan Temple-Jones, Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe, Beibhinn Parsons, Claire Boles, Clare Gorman, Emily Lane, Erin King, Eve Higgins, Julie Dolezilova, Kate Farrell McCabe, Lucy Mulhall, Megan Burns, Rugby 7s, Stacey Flood, Vicky Elmes Kinlan
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After back-to-back victories Friday over Sweden and Germany and a draw today (June 10) with Spain followed by a quaterfinal win over Czechia, Ireland 7s topped their pool and are through to the semi-finals in the Women’s 7s Championship in Algarve, Portugal. Ireland will play France tomorrow at 11:36 a.m. Ireland opened the tournament strongly with a 27-0 victory over …
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Deborah Griffin Set to Make History As The First Female President Of RFU
Deborah Griffen is set to make history in 2025 by becoming the Rugby Football Union (RFU) first-ever female president. Griffin’s landmark appointment in 2025 will hopefully pave the way for the growth of women’s rugby and encourage additional females globally to participate. As the founder of the Women’s Rugby Football Union in 1983, Chair for the first women’s Rugby World …
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Ireland To Host ITF Tag World Cup 2023
The 2023 ITF Tag World Cup is set to take place in Ireland from 2-5 August. Over twenty nations will travel to Limerick to compete, mostly from the southern hemisphere. In 2019, the International Tag Federation awarded the (then) 2021 ITF Tag World Cup to Ireland. All previous tag world cups had taken place in the Southern Hemisphere, so this …
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