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Ten current or retired members of the Ireland team have earned 100 or more test caps. Ireland's all-time cap leader is Cian Healy with 135 followed by Brian O'Driscoll with 133. The active player with the most caps is Cian Healy with 135 caps, followed by Conor Murray with 121 caps. [2] These figures do not include caps for the Lions. When ...
Those who represented Ireland in matches where no caps were awarded are not included - for example James Myles represented Ireland during the 1899 Ireland rugby union tour of Canada but was never capped for Ireland. On 16 April 2023 the IRFU announced it had decided to award caps to 12 players who featured for Ireland but were not awarded caps ...
This is a list of the appearance leaders in men's rugby union test matches, listing the 92 players with over one hundred test caps. Rugby union requires only one nation to recognise a match as a test in order for it to be included in test statistics for that nation.
The Ireland national rugby union team [2] 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 .
Player name Caps Starts Nation Time span Sergio Parisse: 69: 69 Italy 2004–2019: Alun Wyn Jones: 67: 65 Wales 2007–2023: Cian Healy: 65: 44 Ireland 2010–2025: Brian O'Driscoll: 65: 65 Ireland
Brian O'Driscoll is an Irish rugby union player who has 141 caps to his name; 133 for Ireland and 8 for the British & Irish Lions. He is currently the fourth most capped player in the world behind Richie McCaw, Sergio Parisse and Alun Wyn Jones. He earned his first Irish cap playing against Australia on the 12 June 1999 at Ballymore Stadium in ...
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.
Ceremonial caps were presented for the first time in April 2018 to all players who had featured for the Lions up to that point. The caps were sent out to all 419 living players, and to the next-of-kin for the remaining 416 players that had represented the Lions up to this point. [1] The numbers are assigned in order of each player's first ...