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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Team Ireland Returns Triumphant From 2023 European Games With 13 Medals
The European Games drew to a close in Krakow last night with Irish gold medal winning kickboxer, Amy Wall, serving as the Permanent TSB Flagbearer at the ceremony. After thirteen days of competition which saw 121 Irish athletes across 17 sports compete for Team Ireland, the majority of the team will return to Dublin Airport this evening. Ireland secured a …
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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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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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Munster VS Barbarians Double-Header At Thomond Park
By The Editor of Munster Rugby Munster Rugby will face the Barbarians at Thomond Park in a historic double-header for the province with the women’s and men’s squads facing respective invitational sides on Saturday, 30 September. A festival of rugby awaits in what will be a great family occasion for the Limerick venue, having last hosted the Barbarians in November …
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Smart Ball Technology To Aid Rugby Refs At U20 World Championship
World Rugby is to introduce ‘smart ball’ technology at this summer’s U20 World Championship. Collaborating with Sportable and Gilbert this will be the world’s first trial of smart ball technology in a live match officiating capacity. It could transform the way in which the sport is officiated. The motivation is to explore how the emergence of new technology and artificial …
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Neve Jones Named Bank Of Ireland’s Women’s XVs Players’ Player Of The Year 2023
The 2023 Rugby Players Ireland Awards took place in Dublin on Wednesday night where Neve Jones was awarded the Bank of Ireland’s Women’s XVs Players’ Player of the Year 2023. Ireland hooker Jones topped the vote by members of the Ireland squad, who accepted the trophy on her behalf at Dublin’s Clayton Burlington hotel. Jones edged out fellow forwards Deirbhile …
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Lucy Mulhall: 50 Caps For Ireland Sevens Captain Leading Ireland To Olympics
Lucy Mulhall captianed Ireland Rugby 7s side to win automatic Paris 2024 qualification after the team beat Fiji this past Sunday in Toulouse. This was a momentous day for the team, made even more special for captain Mulhall as the match against Fiji also corresponded with her 50th tournament cap for Ireland 7s. Mulhall was a part of the 7s …
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Women’s National Talent Squad Pathway Set To Develop Ireland’s Rugby
The IRFU has announced the appointment of eight new Women’s National Talent Squad Pathway staff to be based at five Provincial Centre of Excellence hubs as part of a further investment and commitment to developing and inspiring a new generation of talent. The announcement was made Wednesday morning, 10 May 2023, at the National High-Performance Centre on the Sport Ireland …
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