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The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in international rugby union and plays in the Six Nations Championship and Rugby World Cup. Thomas Gisborne Gordon, who played for Ireland between 1877–78, is the only one handed player to have competed in international rugby of either code. [1]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Ireland international rugby union players. It includes Ireland international rugby union players that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The Ireland national rugby union team [1] is the men's representative national team for the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team represents both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland . Ireland competes in the annual Six Nations Championship and in the Rugby World Cup .
Ireland national rugby union team captains (99 P) S. South Africa national rugby union team captains (69 P) This page was last edited on 1 November 2024, at 06:32 ...
List of Ireland national rugby union players is a list of men who have played for the Ireland national rugby union team. Note the list only includes men who have played in a Test match (which includes those who played against the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team )
O'Driscoll is the fourth most-capped player in rugby union history, having played 141 test matches: 133 for Ireland (83 as captain), and 8 for the Lions. [1] [2] He scored 46 tries for Ireland and 1 try for the Lions in 2001, making him the highest try scorer of all time in Irish Rugby.
Thomas Joseph Kiernan (7 January 1939 – 3 February 2022) was an Ireland international rugby union player. [1] He won 54 caps for Ireland as a full-back between 1960 and 1973 and captained his country 24 times.
Rugby union is a popular team sport on the island of Ireland, organised on an all-Ireland basis, including players and teams from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Its governing body, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), was founded in 1875, [ 2 ] making it the third oldest rugby union in the world after the RFU (England) and ...