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Initially, there were two unions: the Irish Football Union, which had jurisdiction over clubs in Leinster, Munster and parts of Ulster and was founded in December 1874, and the Northern Football Union of Ireland, which controlled the Belfast area and was founded in January 1875. [2] The IRFU was formed in 1879 as an amalgamation of these two ...
Irish Rugby Football Union, The Irish rugby football union (IRFU), is the national rugby association of Ireland ... [Founded] 1879 [Current President] Greg Barret ...
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 the SRU (Scotland), which were both founded in 1871.
South Africa and Ireland teams posing together at their 1912 test at Lansdowne Road. 1920 illustration of the Ireland versus Wales match Such was the level of interest in the visit of the first All Blacks team to Dublin in November 1905 that the IRFU made the match the first all-ticket rugby international in history.
It was founded following the first ever rugby union international, played between England and Scotland in 1871. The Scottish Football Union (later renamed the Scottish Rugby Union) was then founded in 1873, the Irish Rugby Football Union in 1879 and the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881.
While the team was founded in 1873, [1] they did not join the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union until it was founded in 1907. [2] The IRFU ultimately merged with the Western Interprovincial Football Union and formed the CFL in 1958, [ 3 ] which the Argos have been competing in ever since.
Both provinces combined to provide the squad for the Irish international representative side from the first international match in 1875 until the IRFU was formally founded in 1879, consisting of the formal founding of the Leinster and Ulster branches and the addition of a third provincial side, the Munster branch.
On 26 October 1968, Ireland made it four successive wins over the Wallabies. In 1969, Ireland claimed a 17–9 victory over France in the Five Nations, a first victory over Les Bleus in 11 years. In the autumn of 1969, the Irish Rugby Football Union appointed a coach for the national team for the first time, the role went to Ronnie Dawson.