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The Cincinnati Rugby Football Club, nicknamed the Wolfhounds, is an American rugby union team based in Cincinnati, Ohio.The flagship team plays in the Midwest Rugby Premiership and additional teams playing in Division III and in the USA Rugby Club 7s for Men and Women.
Irish Rugby Football Union: National team(s) Ireland: First played: 1869, Dublin: Registered players: 153,823 [1] Clubs: 56 clubs affiliated to the Ulster Branch 71 clubs affiliated to the Leinster Branch 59 clubs affiliated to the Munster Branch 23 clubs affiliated to the Connacht Branch.
First Ireland rugby team: played England on 19 February 1875 and lost by 2 goals and a try to nil. Dublin University was the first organised rugby football club in Ireland, having been founded in 1854. The club was organised by students who had learnt the game while at English public schools.
University and college rugby union clubs in Ireland (7 C, 9 P) ... Irish Exiles (rugby union team) (2 C, 1 P) L. Lansdowne Football Club (1 C, 2 P) Leinster Rugby (5 ...
At the 2011 Rugby World Cup, the Ireland team entered the field of play at the beginning of their matches with the Irish tricolour and the Flag of Ulster. [6] [7] Similar to the flag and logo compromise, since The Rugby World Cup in 1995, the Irish rugby team has sung both the Irish national anthem "Amhrán na bhFiann" and "Ireland's call". [8]
The first national rugby union was the Rugby Football Union, founded in England in 1871. This was followed over the next decade by the home nations of Scottish Football Union (1873, later SRU), Irish Rugby Football Union (1879) and Welsh Rugby Union (1881). The French Federation (1919) and most recent addition to the 6 Nations Italy (1928).
Dublin University was the first organised rugby football club in Ireland, having been founded in 1854. [5] The club was organised by students who had learnt the game while at public schools in Great Britain. During the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and following the adoption of a set of official rules in 1868, rugby football began to ...
Cork Constitution F.C are the only club to have constantly retained their status in Division 1 since 1990/91. All other clubs in the league have experienced relegation. The league is the second highest level of rugby union in Ireland, as professional teams representing the four provinces of Ireland play in the United Rugby Championship.