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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) Those who represented the British and Irish Lions but were never capped for Ireland are not included - for example William Joseph Ashby was part of the first Lions team to tour South Africa in ...
Pages in category "Ireland international rugby union players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,018 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
From this nadir, however, Irish rugby improved. The Irish Rugby Football Union converted the four representative provincial sides into de facto club sides, and the formation in 2001 of the Celtic League (now called the Pro14) provided Irish provincial sides with regular competitive rugby. The move to provincial professionalism was a significant ...
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]
Pages in category "Irish rugby union players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,354 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Irish Women's Rugby Football Union (IWRFU) was founded in 1991, and the Ireland women's national rugby union team made their international debut in 1993. The IWRFU became affiliated to the IRFU in 2001, and was incorporated into the IRFU in 2008.
As of 26 June 2017, 835 players have made an appearance for the British and Irish Lions, a rugby union team selected from players eligible for any of the Home Nations – the national sides of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. [1] One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand.