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The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) (Irish: Cumann Rugbaí na hÉireann) is the body managing rugby union in the island of Ireland (both Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). The IRFU has its head office at 10/12 Lansdowne Road and home ground at Aviva Stadium , where adult men's Irish rugby union international matches are played.
The Northern Football Union of Ireland was founded in January 1875, and controlled the game in the Belfast area The two unions amalgamated to form the IRFU in 1879, [35] but not before the first interprovincial match, between Ulster and Leinster, [36] and Ireland's first international match against England, both in 1875. [37]
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.
Map of IRFU provincial branches. A number of clubs were operating in Ulster prior to the foundation of the Irish Rugby Football Union and the Ulster branch. The Belfast-based North of Ireland F.C., founded in 1868, was the earliest club to operate in the province.
IRFU or Irfu may refer to: . Irish Rugby Football Union, The Irish rugby football union (IRFU), is the national rugby association of Ireland; Interprovincial Rugby Football Union, a four-team league that merged with the Westerm Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (WIFU) to create the Canadian Football League
The IRFU declined to extend Declan Kidney's contract, and Joe Schmidt was announced as the new Ireland coach. [37] In their 2013 end-of-year rugby union tests, Ireland lost 22–24 to New Zealand, having led throughout the match. [38] Ireland opened their 2014 Six Nations Championship with wins over Scotland and Wales. [39]
The Munster Rugby Supporters Club was founded in 1999 and has branches in Brussels, Dublin, London and the United States. [257] The strength of Munster's support was demonstrated during Munster's 2006 and 2008 Heineken Cup final wins. News reports detailed the lengths that fans were willing to go to secure tickets to the game, with some Munster ...
The present club was founded after a match at Derrinturn between Carberry and Tullamore. It was decided to hold a general meeting, which was held in Colton's hotel on Monday 19 April 1937. The honour of being the first president of the new club was bestowed on Dr. J. M. Prior Kennedy.