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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 Ireland national rugby union team [1] 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 .
Rugby union is a popular team sport on the island of Ireland, organised on an all-Ireland basis, including players and teams from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. 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 ...
Ireland have been drawn in Pool B for the tournament in France ... Ireland Rugby World Cup fixtures: Full schedule and route to the final. Harry Latham-Coyle. September 25, 2023 at 11:41 PM.
Ireland began their 2011 Rugby World Cup campaign on the back of four defeats in a series of warm-up tests in August, with a 22–10 victory over the United States in New Plymouth on 11 September. Failing to secure a bonus point against world cup minnows the United States, a team ranked far below Ireland, this was an unconvincing win.
The first rugby union game at the Aviva was an exhibition game on 31 July 2010, billed as the O 2 Challenge, involving under-18 and under-20 players from all four of Ireland's provincial sides, with a Leinster/Ulster side defeating a Munster/Connacht combination 68–0. [173]
Ireland rugby team may refer to teams in the different codes of rugby football: Rugby union. Ireland national rugby union team, administered by the Irish Rugby ...
This article is a list of statistics from the Ireland rugby union team's 34 international tours. The article also includes details of the Ireland Wolfhounds' and Developmental sides' three international tours.